ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,674, issued on June 2.
"Prosthetic coupling device apparatus and method" was invented by Mark Alan Lewis (Grand Junction, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic coupling device includes an internal mount including a proximate shaft portion and a distal mounting portion, a threaded sleeve formed around the distal mounting portion of the internal mount, the threaded sleeve including outer threads, and a rotatable barrel formed around the proximate shaft portion and the distal mounting portion of the internal mount, the rotatable barrel including internal barrel threads that interface with the outer threads of the threaded sle...