US Patent Issued to Medi Manufacturing on March 3 for "Graduated compression device for the treatment of circulatory disorders" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,520, issued on March 3, was assigned to Medi Manufacturing Inc. (Whitsett, N.C.).

"Graduated compression device for the treatment of circulatory disorders" was invented by Moses Lipshaw (Hillsborough, N.C.), Thomas Richardson (San Diego), Teresa Kennerknecht (San Diego) and Sandra Anne Shaw (Coronado, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A therapeutic compression garment, including: a body portion; and a spine portion, wherein the bands extending from either the body portion and/or spine portion attach the body and spine portions together when the body and spine portions are wrapped around a body limb, and wherein the spine portion ...