US Patent Issued to C. R. Bard on June 2 for "Female external catheters and methods thereof" (Georgia, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,689, issued on June 2, was assigned to C. R. Bard Inc. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Female external catheters and methods thereof" was invented by D. Claire Gloeckner (Lilburn, Ga.), Matthew J. Rothberg (Atlanta), Seth C. Schneider (Social Circle, Ga.), Jonathan Robichaud (Decatur, Ga.), Michael Bailey (Creedmoor, N.C.) and James David Hughett Sr. (Monroe, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are female external catheters ("FECs") and methods thereof. For example, an FEC can include a catheter body, a catheter back, and a connector. The catheter body can include a cavity extending along a length of the catheter body. The ca...