ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,218, issued on Oct. 27.

"Tourniquet with multi-angle tightening device" was invented by Chu-hsiung Huang (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Hao-cheng Fan (Taichung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tourniquet with multi-angle tightening devices includes a tourniquet main body, a first tightening device, and a fixing element. The first tightening device is rotatably disposed on the tourniquet main body and includes at least three pillar-shaped structures. The at least three pillar-shaped structures respectively extends outward from a rotation center of the first tightening device. There is a first width between the at least three...