US Patent Issued to GLOBERIDE on July 28 for "Rod for spinal brace" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,891, issued on July 28, was assigned to GLOBERIDE Inc. (Tokyo).

"Rod for spinal brace" was invented by Katsuhiro Oikawa (Higashikurume, Japan) and Takuji Kawamura (Higashikurume, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixture rod includes a plurality of layers of a reinforcing fiber layer and a plurality of layers of any one of a resin layer, a reinforcing fiber layer having fibers different from those of the reinforcing fiber layer, and a reinforcing fiber layer having fibers obliquely oriented with respect to a fiber direction of the reinforcing fiber layer, in which the plurality of layers are each alternately formed as viewed in ...