ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,022, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CHABLOZ ORTHOPEDIE (Seyssinet-Pariset, France).
"Covering shell for a prosthesis and limb prosthesis" was invented by Marc Souply (Vizille, France), Anousak Khounlavong (Seyssinet-Pariset, France), Elodie Ronayette-Lamoine (Grenoble, France) and Jules Revais (Seyssinet-Pariset, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A covering shell for a prosthesis of a given limb, the shell having at least two zones of different flexibility. The arrangement of the zones of the covering shell in relation to one another corresponding to the arrangement of the parts of the given limb having different hardnesses. ...