ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,678, issued on June 2, was assigned to DIMENSION ORTHOTICS LLC (Philadelphia).

"3D subtractive manufacturing of casts, braces, splints and other orthoses" was invented by Michael Rivlin (Philadelphia), Pedro K. Beredjiklian (Philadelphia), Ashkan Sedigh (Philadelphia), Alexander R. Vaccaro (Philadelphia), Michael J. Sileski (Philadelphia) and Steve Stubitz (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional subtractive manufacturing system configured for constructing an orthopedic orthosis from a first blank of a plurality of blanks includes a scanner configured to capture a 3D model of a body part of a patient, a central...