ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,843, issued on July 21, was assigned to UROTECH GMBH (Rohrdorf-Achenmuehle, Germany).
"Amplatz sheath and dilation system" was invented by Tobias Hochburger (Rosenheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Amplatz sheath for positioning inside a natural or artificially created bodily cavity in a human or animal has a distal end toward the body and a proximal end away from the body, with at least one lumen being formed between the distal end and the proximal end. At least in a region at the proximal end, the Amplatz sheath is transparent or translucent and, in this region, has at least one marking for determining the position of ...