ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,288, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Ossur Iceland ehf (Reykjavik, Iceland).

"Prosthetic foot with removable flexible members" was invented by Arinbjorn Viggo Clausen (Reykjavik, Iceland), Bjarni Andresson (Seltjarnarnes, Iceland), Ragnar Orn Gunnarsson (Reykjavik, Iceland), Christophe Guy Lecomte (Reykjavik, Iceland), Maria Gudrun Sveinbjornsdottir (Mosfellsbaer, Iceland), David Sandahl (Reykjavik, Iceland), Atli Orn Sverrisson (Reykjavik, Iceland) and David Langlois (Saint-Jacques-de-Leeds, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic foot can include an attachment member, at least one first brace, at least one first flexi...