ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,644, issued on Sept. 23, 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 and error detection thereof" 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 d...