US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Michigan on Nov. 25 for "Urinary catheter treatment" (Michigan, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,767, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Urinary catheter treatment" was invented by Mark E. Meyerhoff (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Orsolya I. Lautner-Csorba (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Griffin Murray (Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.), Gergely Lautner (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Alexander S. Yevzlin (Black Earth, Wis.) and Karthik Ramani (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes mixing a liquid carrier and a powder formulation including an S-nitrosothiol (RSNO) powder to form a nitric oxide generating solution; and within a predetermined time of mixing, introducing the nitric o...