Patent ID: 11911572
Assignee: INNOCARE UROLOGICS, LLC
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 15:
16. An improved balloon retention urinary catheter, the balloon retention urinary catheter having an elongate flexible catheter shaft extending between a proximal end and a distal end, a balloon adjacent the distal end, a drainable port distal of the balloon, and a distal tip located distal of the drainable port, and at the proximal end of the catheter shaft a proximal hub with a first port for communication with the balloon and a second port for communication with the drainable port, the improvement comprising:
the distal tip including a polymer component that is insoluble in urinary fluid in the bladder and which is combined with an eluting component that is dissolvable by urinary fluid and adapted to elute from the distal tip in the presence of urinary fluid in order to increase flexibility of the distal tip.