ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,146, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to C. R. Bard Inc. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Automated urinary output measuring system" was invented by Hersh Ramesh Patel (Atlanta), Varad Chavan (Kolhapur, India), Thomas Michael Meese (Louisville, Colo.), Dennis Joseph (Milton, Ga.) and Rachit Bhasin (Chandigarh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an automated urinary output monitoring system including an automated urinary output monitoring device. The automated urinary output monitoring device includes a load cell assembly, a mounting system having a buffering region configured to reduce vibrations through the automated ur...