US Patent Issued to PAR Excellence Systems on July 14 for "Catheter hanging system" (Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,597, issued on July 14, was assigned to PAR Excellence Systems Inc. (Cincinnati).

"Catheter hanging system" was invented by Thomas J. Kochan II (Brighton, Mich.), Stanley S. Copeland (Saint Louisville, Ohio) and Thaddeus MacKrell (Gross Pointe City, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a catheter hanging system for the purpose of storing catheters or similar medical devices while continuously weighing the catheters. The catheter hanging system includes a plurality of hooks, a plurality of load cells, and at least one circuit board. Each load cell of the plurality of load cells is configured to contin...