US Patent Issued to Potrero Medical on Aug. 4 for "Systems, devices and methods for draining and analyzing bodily fluids" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,466, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Potrero Medical Inc. (Hayward, Calif.).

"Systems, devices and methods for draining and analyzing bodily fluids" was invented by Daniel R. Burnett (San Francisco) and Dimitri Sokolov (Castro Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices and methods for draining and analyzing bodily fluids are disclosed where one variation of the catheter system may generally comprise a catheter having at least one opening near or at a distal end of the catheter, a barb in fluid communication with a proximal end of the catheter, a drainage tube in fluid communication with the at least one opening, ...