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US 10,293,136 B2Granted
Efficiently packaged ready to use intermittent urinary catheter
AssigneeCure Medical LLC
InventorTimothy Palmer
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Abstract
An efficiently packaged ready to use intermittent urinary catheter. The catheter is retained within a retention chamber having a profile that mimics the profile of the catheter by sealing the upper and a lower films together along a peripheral seal line. The retention chamber includes an enlarged compartment intermediate axial ends of the catheter in which lubricant is stored.
Claims22
A hermetically packaged intermittent urinary catheter, consisting essentially of:
- an intermittent urinary catheter having a longitudinal axial length with a first portion terminating at an insertion end and a second portion longitudinally opposed to the first portion terminating at a fixture end, and a top view profile, the catheter hermetically packaged between laminated first and second layers of film hermetically sealing the catheter within a lubricant containing retention chamber having a top view profile conforming to the top view profile of the catheter, wherein the lubricant is positioned and arranged within the retention chamber for lubricating contact with only the first portion of the packaged catheter.
A hermetically packaged intermittent urinary catheter, consisting of:
- an intermittent urinary catheter having a longitudinal axial length with a first portion terminating at an insertion end and a second portion longitudinally opposed to the first portion terminating at a fixture end with or without an attached fixture, and a top view profile, the catheter hermetically packaged between laminated first and second layers of film hermetically sealing the catheter within a lubricant containing retention chamber having a top view profile conforming to the top view profile of the catheter, wherein the lubricant is positioned and arranged within the retention chamber for lubricating contact with only the first portion of the packaged catheter.
A hermetically packaged intermittent urinary catheter, consisting of:
- an intermittent urinary catheter having a longitudinal axial length with a first portion terminating at an insertion end and a second portion longitudinally opposed to the first portion terminating at a fixture end with or without an attached fixture, and a top view profile, the catheter hermetically packaged between laminated first and second layers of film hermetically sealing the catheter within a retention chamber having a top view profile conforming to the top view profile of the catheter except for an expanded lubricant containing compartment of the retention chamber intermediate the insertion and funnel ends of the catheter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.