US Patent Issued to Certus Critical Care, Wake Forest University Health Sciences on March 18 for "Blood flow control devices, systems, and methods" (Utah, Oregon, California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,111, issued on March 18, was assigned to Certus Critical Care Inc. (Salt Lake City) and Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Blood flow control devices, systems, and methods" was invented by Michael Austin Johnson (Holladay, Utah), David Poisner (Carmichael, Calif.), Melanie McWade (Portland, Ore.), Timothy Williams (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and Lucas Neff (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for blood flow control are described herein. In some variations, a blood flow control system may comprise a blood flow control device. The blood flow control device may be placed within a...