US Patent Issued to PureWick on Feb. 3 for "Apparatus and methods for receiving discharged urine" (Georgia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,227, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to PureWick Corp. (Covington, Ga.).

"Apparatus and methods for receiving discharged urine" was invented by Ashley Marie Johannes (Atlanta), Eric Alan Rehm (Lawrenceville, Ga.), Andrew L. Meyer (Atlanta), Raymond J. Newton (Bonsall, Calif.) and Jason Glithero (McDonough, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system suitable for collecting and transporting urine away from the body of a person or animal may include a urine collecting assembly having a body, a sealing flange, and a reservoir within the body and partially defined by the sealing flange. The sealing flange can define an opening such that th...