US Patent Issued to C. R. Bard on Sept. 29 for "Balloon blocker for occlusion and suction" (Georgia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,382, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to C. R. Bard Inc. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Balloon blocker for occlusion and suction" was invented by D. Claire Gloeckner (Lilburn, Ga.), Jill Walthall Jones (Avondale Estates, Ga.), Dinesh Puppala (San Bruno, Calif.) and Patrick Hudson Chancy (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to a drainage system for draining a fluid from a patient where the system includes a drainage tube that provides fluid communication between a catheter and a collection container. The drainage tube includes a port and a balloon attached to an interior of the drainage tube, w...