US Patent Issued to Koya Medical on March 3 for "Electro-actuatable compression garments with shape memory elements" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,537, issued on March 3, was assigned to Koya Medical Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Electro-actuatable compression garments with shape memory elements" was invented by Anand Doraiswamy (Oakland, Calif.), Connor Meehan (Pleasant Hill, Calif.), Jay Zuerndorfer (Oakland, Calif.), Ian Kovacevich (Carlsbad, Calif.), John Pamplin (Oakland, N.C.) and Jarren Baldwin (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compression garment having one or more flex frames that can be shortened or lengthened to apply or release a compressive force to the limb or other anatomical feature of a user. The compression garment can have a wire made of shape memo...