US Patent Issued to Altitude Technologies on Sept. 29 for "Direct pressure device" (Georgia, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,011, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Altitude Technologies Inc. (Tulsa, Okla.).

"Direct pressure device" was invented by Marissa McAfee (Cumming, Ga.), Rowdy Reeves (Tulsa, Okla.) and Cliff Laymon (Tulsa, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A direct pressure device, which may be a device designed to hold direct pressure to a wound that has been packed with a hemostatic agent or to control distal hemorrhage by maintaining pressure to a pressure point. The direct pressure device may be designed to be used with two tourniquets or an elastic wrap/ACE wrap-type device to apply downward pressure to control bleeding from a wound or to...