US Patent Issued to Teleflex Life Sciences II on July 21 for "Hemostatic devices" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,799, issued on July 21, was assigned to Teleflex Life Sciences II LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Hemostatic devices" was invented by Raymond J. Huey (Orange, Conn.), Denny Lo (Bethlehem, Conn.), Daniel J. Burns (Stratford, Conn.), Giacomo Basadonna (Haddam, Conn.) and Francis X Hursey (West Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hemostatic device for promoting the clotting of blood includes a gauze substrate, a clay material disposed on the gauze substrate, and also a polyol such as glycerol or the like disposed on the gauze substrate to bind the clay material. When the device is used to treat a bleeding wound, at least a portion...