US Patent Issued to MARTURION ELECTRONICS on Aug. 5 for "Tourniquet assemblies and systems, and methods for controlling tourniquets" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,865, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to MARTURION ELECTRONICS Ltd. (Lisburn, Great Britain).

"Tourniquet assemblies and systems, and methods for controlling tourniquets" was invented by Andrew Barr (Annahilt, Great Britain), James S. Stewart (Baileyton, Ala.), Christopher Green (Moody, Ala.) and Ashish Shah (Vestavia, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tourniquet for occluding blood flow to a limb is improved by the addition of proximal and distal strain gauges. The proximal strain gauge may be monitored under conditions of total blood flow occlusion for time-varying signals indicative of volumetric limb changes arising from the sub...