US Patent Issued to Coloplast on Aug. 11 for "Tracheostoma device holder" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,778, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Coloplast A/S (Humlebaek, Denmark).

"Tracheostoma device holder" was invented by Maarten Jan Antony van Alphen (Amsterdam), Maartje Leemans (Gouda, Netherlands), Edsko Evert Geert Hekman (Enschede, Netherlands) and Richard Dirven (Nijmegen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tracheostoma device holder (10) for holding a tracheostoma device to a tracheostoma of a person is provided. The tracheostoma device holder (10) comprises a head portion (50) for engaging with a tracheostoma device and a fixation portion (20) for fixating the tracheostoma device holder (10) to the tracheostoma of ...