Four Clemson students are young inventors

Four Clemson bio-engineering students and their novel medical device face their most challenging test this week at the U-S Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia.  Jordan Suzanna Cole, Kathleen Fallon, Karly Faith Ripple, and Allison Reichardt are bound for the Collegiate Inventors Competition with their CatheSure creation.  The CatheSure is designed to wirelessly detect shunt malfunctions in hydrocephalus patients in fewer than five minutes.  Those patients, often children, suffer from a build-up of cerebrospinal fluid in their brains.  A shunt is surgically placed in the body to help drain the fluid.  The CateSure is intended to make diagnosis faster and less invasive, helping prevent unnecessary exploratory brain surgeries, prolonged hospital stays and repeated radiation exposure.