ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,551, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to OTSUKA TECHNO Corp. (Naruto, Japan).
"Urinary catheter cap" was invented by Osamu Takiguchi (Naruto, Japan), Tetsuya Masuda (Naruto, Japan) and Takashi Hisamoto (Naruto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A urinary catheter cap includes a main body that includes a urine introduction passage including a connection hole configured to be connected to a urinary catheter and a drain hole for draining urine, a lid portion that has a tubularly formed portion having a first end portion at the drain hole side and a second end portion at an opposite side and opens and closes the drain hole, a partition...