US Patent Issued to Coloplast on Aug. 11 for "Ostomy appliance" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,580, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Coloplast A/S (Humlebaek, Denmark).

"Ostomy appliance" was invented by Mikael Andersen (Alleroed, Denmark) and Jeppe Marckmann (Kastrup, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ostomy appliance (10) comprising a base plate (20) with a first coupling part (40), a collecting bag (30) with a second coupling part (50), the first coupling part (40) and the second coupling part (50) being configured for cooperating with each other so as to provide a coupling between the collecting bag and the base plate; the first coupling part (40) comprises a first coupling ring (41) comprising an axially extendi...