ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,932, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SHANDONG UNIVERSITY (Jinan, China).

"Hydrophilic silicone rubber serving as medical catheter, preparation method thereof and application thereof" was invented by Haifeng Lu (Jinan, China), Chuanjian Zhou (Jinan, China), Shengyu Feng (Jinan, China), Hua Wang (Jinan, China), Chen An (Jinan, China), Yuan Qu (Jinan, China), Fanzhen Kong (Jinan, China) and Qingming Zeng (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to hydrophilic silicone rubber serving as a medical catheter and a preparation method and application thereof. The hydrophilic silicone rubber is obtained fr...