ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,599, issued on June 10, was assigned to JMK50 LLC (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

"Devices and methods for treating epistaxis" was invented by Joseph Shiller (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and Melissa Howard (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to devices and methods for treating epistaxis. In some embodiments, a device for occluding epistaxis includes a first curvilinear wall, a second curvilinear wall, and a third curvilinear wall each disposed at a top portion of the device. The device has an x-axis, y-axis, and z-axis, and the top portion is relative to the y-axis. The device includes a fou...