US Patent Issued to Coloplast on Oct. 14 for "Method of delivering a urological device into a bladder neck or urethra of a user" (Irish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,323, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Coloplast A/S (Humlebaek, Denmark).

"Method of delivering a urological device into a bladder neck or urethra of a user" was invented by Niall Behan (Kilcolgan, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of delivering a urological device includes providing a catheter and a urological valve that can be retained within the catheter; advancing the catheter toward a bladder neck of a user; withdrawing the catheter from the user; and deploying the urological valve out of the catheter into the bladder neck or urethra of the user."

The patent was filed on Nov. 10, 2021, under Application No. 17/5...