ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,090, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SPEED CARE MINERAL GMBH (Neubrandenburg, Germany).

"Kind of wound dressing for haemostasis" was invented by Joachim Schomburg (Neubrandenburg, Germany), Marta Loffler (Altentreptow, Germany), Christian Schultz (Neubrandenburg, Germany), Eckhard Salzsieder (Karlsburg, Germany) and Wolfgang Frohn (Schauenstein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wound dressing is which has haemostatic, coagulation-promoting and biocidal properties and can therefore be utilized particularly for acute wound care. Typical areas of application for acute wound care are, for example, the treatment of gunshot wounds...