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Audrey Contente’s Softcup invention record
A detailed account of inventor Audrey Contente’s work developing the Softcup and building Ultrafem, accompanied by a timeline, patent listings, and FDA history.
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- Readers researching menstrual-product history and women’s health invention
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- The page lists four U.S. patents, including a separately patented apparatus for manufacturing elastomeric articles.
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The invention walkthrough describes how Contente arrived at a 70 mm rim through research with volunteers using diaphragms of different sizes. It also recounts work with condom and thin-film manufacturers, custom glass molds from Corning, and a separately patented manufacturing system. The timeline places the first patent application in 1989 and the Softcup launch in 1996; the FDA-clearance account is presented by the site.
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