ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,794, issued on July 21, was assigned to CONVATEC Ltd. (Flintshire, Great Britain).
"Intermittent catheter storage/sterilisation" was invented by Daniel Allen (Staffordshire, Great Britain) and David Pollard (Merseyside, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter storage and sterilisation device that has a housing and a removeable cartridge, the cartridge including a catheter-receiving chamber for receiving a catheter. The cartridge being removably attachable to the housing and having an opening in fluid communication with the housing. The housing has a chamber for receiving a sterilisation fluid and a mechanism for suppl...