US Patent Issued to SALTS HEALTHCARE on Oct. 20 for "Ostomy pouches" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,227, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SALTS HEALTHCARE Ltd. (Birmingham, Great Britain).

"Ostomy pouches" was invented by Iain Powner (Birmingham, Great Britain), Lee Tretheway (Birmingham, Great Britain), Andrew Barron (Swansea, Great Britain), Donald Hill (Swansea, Great Britain) and Shirin Alexander (Swansea, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ostomy pouch has a pair of opposed side walls, one of the side walls defines a stoma-receiving opening for, in use, receiving a part of a stoma into the ostomy pouch, one or both of the side walls being formed of a polymeric film at least partially coated on an internal surfac...