ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,120, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ILB Tactical Solutions Ltd. (Yesha, Israel).
"First aid device" was invented by Itay Besser (Kibbutz Mishmar Hanegev, Israel) and Lior Ben Yaakov (Yesha, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first-aid device for controlling a bleeding injury of a limb, said first-aid device comprising, at least in use: an emergency bandage having a blood absorbing portion with a central point, configured for absorbing blood from the injury, and at least one bandage strap connected at least indirectly to the blood absorbing portion and configured for securely mounting the blood absorbing portion to the limb wit...