US Patent Issued to C. R. Bard on March 31 for "Intermittent-catheter assembly and methods thereof" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,218, issued on March 31, was assigned to C. R. Bard Inc. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Intermittent-catheter assembly and methods thereof" was invented by Ronald N. Legaspi (Alpharetta, Ga.), James David Hughett Sr. (Monroe, Ga.) and Kyle Daw (Smyrna, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are intermittent-catheter assemblies and methods thereof. An intermittent-catheter assembly includes, in some embodiments, a collapsible catheter housing and an intermittent catheter. The catheter housing can include an inner sleeve and an outer sleeve slidably mounted over the inner sleeve. Alternatively, the catheter housing can include ...