US Patent Issued to PUREWICK on July 28 for "Molded or extruded fluid collection devices, and related systems and methods" (Illinois, North Carolina, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,209, issued on July 28, was assigned to PUREWICK Corp. (Covington, Ga.).

"Molded or extruded fluid collection devices, and related systems and methods" was invented by Alexandra Julian (Elmhurst, Ill.), Joseph Ranalletta (Greenville, S.C.), Gonghao Wang (Cary, N.C.) and John Hayes (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples relate to fluid collection devices, and related systems and methods. In some embodiments, a fluid collection device includes a fluid impermeable barrier and an elongated body that is at least partially fluid permeable. The fluid impermeable barrier has a distal end region and a proximal end region defin...