US Patent Issued to Potrero Medical on Sept. 8 for "Systems and methods for draining bodily fluids" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,804, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Potrero Medical Inc. (Hayward, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for draining bodily fluids" was invented by Dimitri Sokolov (Castro Valley, Calif.), Saheel Sutaria (El Cerrito, Calif.) and Rich Keenan (Granite Bay, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices and methods for draining and analyzing bodily fluids and assessing health are described generally comprising a pumping mechanism which is fluidly connectable at a first end to a portion of a drainage line and a venting mechanism having a one-way valve and which is connectable at a first end into fluid communication with a drainage c...