ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,957, issued on June 24, was assigned to SHANDONG UNIVERSITY (Shandong, China).

"Portable automated chest-abdominal compression device used in confined spaces and manipulation method thereof" was invented by Ke Li (Shandong, China), Mingze Sun (Shandong, China), Yuguo Chen (Shandong, China), Feng Xu (Shandong, China), Jiali Wang (Shandong, China), Chang Pan (Shandong, China), Jiaojiao Pang (Shandong, China), Yuan Bian (Shandong, China), Yibin Li (Shandong, China) and Ruixuan Zhang (Shandong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a portable automated chest-abdominal compression (CC-AC) device used in confined spaces and a ma...