US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Jan. 28 for "Simplified field use junctional tourniquets" (New Mexico, Virginia, North Carolina, Indiana, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,207,824, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Simplified field use junctional tourniquets" was invented by Joseph Thomas Burkart (Bloomfield, Ind.), Danielle E. Cafasso (Southern Pines, N.C.), Robert Henry Hayford (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Huckelberry Finne (Norfolk, Va.), Jose Ramirez Vargas (Clovis, N.M.) and Michael P Abbott (Chesapeake, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A junctional tourniquet apparatus and related methods of use. An exemplary tourniquet has an inverted cone shape, wherein a narrower end has a mushroom shaped base that is pressed...