US Patent Issued to The University of Toledo on Sept. 29 for "Urinary catheter" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,364, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to The University of Toledo (Toledo, Ohio).

"Urinary catheter" was invented by Ahmed El-Zawahry (Ottawa Hills, Ohio), Benjamin Ogbonna (Toledo, Ohio) and Abdullah Nasif (Toledo, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an improved urinary catheter for efficiently draining urine from a urinary bladder of a patient. The improved urinary catheter includes a soft tip that is friendly to the urinary bladder. The improved urinary catheter further includes longer drainage port for proper irrigation of the catheter and thus make it simple to use and better tolerability. In ad...