US Patent Issued to Potrero Medical on March 31 for "Systems, devices and methods for draining and analyzing bodily fluids" (California, Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,196, issued on March 31, was assigned to Potrero Medical Inc. (Hayward, Calif.).

"Systems, devices and methods for draining and analyzing bodily fluids" was invented by Evan S. Luxon (Omaha, Neb.), Marcie Hamilton (San Francisco), Daniel R. Burnett (San Francisco) and Mark Ziegler (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for draining bodily fluids is described herein which generally may comprise an elongate body defining one or more lumens configured to receive a bodily fluid from a cavity, e.g., bladder, of a patient body. The one or more lumens are in fluid communication with a reservoir which may receive the bod...