ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,481, issued on Oct. 27.

"Urinary catheter kit" was invented by Camille Oger (Courville-sur-Eure, France) and Herwig De Roeck (Argenvilliers, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a urinary catheter kit comprising:-an aqueous lubricant composition comprising water and at least one polyether-polyurethane thermogelling copolymer P1, and-a urinary catheter with an external coating of thermogelling copolymer P2 comprising at least ether units."

The patent was filed on Feb. 10, 2022, under Application No. 18/263,079.

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