US Patent Issued to CONVATEC on July 7 for "Intermittent catheters" (American, Null Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,181, issued on July 7, was assigned to CONVATEC Ltd. (Flintshire, Great Britain).

"Intermittent catheters" was invented by Rachel Zimet Pytel (Newton, Mass.), Neal Robert Carty (Las Vegas) and Lukas Kandrac (Michalovce, Slovak Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides an intermittent catheter comprising a hollow polymeric tubular body comprising a base polymer and a lubricious additive, wherein the lubricious additive comprises an amphiphilic molecule having a hydrophilic-lipophilic balance below 8."

The patent was filed on July 22, 2022, under Application No. 17/871,440.

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