ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,604, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).
"Hemostatic device" was invented by Satoshi Wada (Shizuoka, Japan) and Yuichi Hioki (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hemostatic device includes a main body belt to be wound around at least a part of a patient's hand/wrist, and a pressing member positionable at a puncture site of the patient's hand to compress the puncture site. The main body belt includes a distal region, and a proximal region farther from the patient's fingertip than the distal region. The distal region includes an anchor portion having a space portion configured to receive the patient's fin...