US Patent Issued to NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY on May 26 for "Balloon-free, self-retainable and threadable urethral catheter" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,465, issued on May 26, was assigned to NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Balloon-free, self-retainable and threadable urethral catheter" was invented by Jeff Shih-Chieh Chueh (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Chi-An Dai (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a balloon-free, self-retainable and threadable urethral catheter that contains special external markings to guide insertion, and that could be indwelled easily and safely. Through various experiments and the structural configuration, the balloon-free, self-retainable and threadable urethral catheter of the present disclosure ca...