ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,719, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).
"Compression device and compression method" was invented by Masakatsu Kawaura (Mountain View, Calif.), Yuki Soma (Mountain View, Calif.), Shuji Uemura (Mountain View, Calif.) and Daniel W. Kaiser (East Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compression device includes an adhesion sheet including an adhesion surface; and a compression member mounted on the adhesion sheet and configured to compress a biological surface. The compression member includes a fixing portion fixed to the adhesion sheet on a side of the sheet opposite the adhesion surface in a thickness dir...