US Patent Issued on April 21 for "Method and apparatus to maintain distance between bones of a knee for pain relief" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,264, issued on April 21.

"Method and apparatus to maintain distance between bones of a knee for pain relief" was invented by Jafar Vossoughi (Brookeville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a body engaging member to engage a first portion of a body including a leg, a base member to engage a second portion of the body including a foot, and a plurality of assemblies connecting the body engaging member and the base member to maintain a distance between bones of a body portion comprising a knee. Each assembly comprises a plurality of rods coupling the body engaging member and the base member, and a coupling tube wi...