US Patent Issued to Little Room Innovations on March 17 for "Prosthetic foot with distributed stress" (Tennessee, Georgia, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,948, issued on March 17, was assigned to Little Room Innovations LLC (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Prosthetic foot with distributed stress" was invented by Harrison Logan Bartlett (Atlanta), Brian Edward Lawson (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Lowell D. Jones (Franklin, Tenn.) and Michael Goldfarb (Franklin, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic foot includes a spring component and a sole component. The spring component comprises two or more stacked beam elements, each beam element including, along the length of the respective beam element, a first portion and a second portion, and the second portion of the beam element includes an extent wit...