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Vented urine meter

Granted 22 Apr 2025 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Bank of America Corporation · originally Medline Industries

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Inventors: Saul Godinez, Darin Decker, Michael Turturro · Examiner: John R Yeh · AU 2933 · TC 2900

Application
29/805,898
filed 31 Aug 2021
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US D1072255
granted 22 Apr 2025

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of…

FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of our new design of a vented urine meter;

FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of the circled portion “ 2 ” in FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 3 is a top plan view of the vented urine meter of FIG. 1 ;

FIG. 4 is a front elevation view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a rear elevation view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a left side elevation view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a right side elevation view thereof; and,

FIG. 8 is a bottom plan view thereof.

The broken lines depict portions of the vented urine meter that form no part of the claimed design. The short dash-dash, long dash lines in FIGS. 1 and 2 indicate the boundary of the partial view and form no part of the claimed design. The break lines in FIGS. 1 and 3 - 8 represent indeterminate lengths, the break lines and portions of the article between the break lines form no part of the claimed design.

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D24/186

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USUS-D884188-SS112 May 20205 Jan 2018grantedVented urine meter
USUS-D932025-SS128 Sep 20216 Apr 2020grantedVented urine meter
USthis patentUS-D1072255-SS122 Apr 202531 Aug 2021grantedVented urine meter
›Other offices — 2 members
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CACA-182341-SS20 Jul 20204 Jul 2018grantedCombined urinary drain bag and vented urine meter
CACA-188246-SS20 Jul 20204 Jul 2018grantedCombined urinary drain bag and vented urine meter

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