ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,046, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to CM Technologies Inc. (San Diego).

"Fecal management systems and methods" was invented by Amit Kumar Sharma (New Delhi), Nishith Chasmawala (Surat, India), Geetika Garg (Ghaziabad, India) and Shreyas Dighe (Nagpur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fecal management methods and apparatuses (e.g., devices, systems, etc.) are described herein. The fecal management apparatuses may apply one or more fecal removal cycles of suction and irrigation (and in some examples air) to actively remove fecal material. The apparatus may control the timing of delivery of the fecal removal cycles as well as the pa...