US Patent Issued to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN on Sept. 23 for "Junctional hemorrhage occlusion device" (Virginia, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,994, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Junctional hemorrhage occlusion device" was invented by Kevin Ward (Glen Allen, Va.) and Jeffrey Stephen Plott (Algonac, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A junctional hemorrhage control device includes a strap and a base operably connected to the strap. A strap carriage is operably connected to, and linearly translatable relative to, the base. A screw assembly is rotatably attached to the base. The screw assembly moves the strap carriage away from the base when the screw assembly is operated in one direction and towards the ba...