US Patent Issued on June 16 for "Attachment for locking prosthetic liners" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,702, issued on June 16.

"Attachment for locking prosthetic liners" was invented by Aldo Laghi (Pinellas Park, Fla.), Nathaniel Vint (Palm Harbor, Fla.), Kurt T. Kruger (St. Petersburg, Fla.) and Jakob W. McClelland (Gulfport, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic liner incorporating a locking attachment that can be used by amputees to engage their prosthetic liner with a prosthetic device. The prosthetic liner has an open proximal end and a closed distal end with a liner opening at the closed distal end. The prosthetic liner further comprises an external fabric layer and an internal elastomer layer. This internal elastomer...