US Patent Issued to OSSUR ICELAND EHF on July 14 for "Mechanical prosthetic foot for multiple activity levels" (Icelander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,304, issued on July 14, was assigned to OSSUR ICELAND EHF (Reykjavik, Iceland).

"Mechanical prosthetic foot for multiple activity levels" was invented by Aron Kristbjorn Albertsson (Reykjavik, Iceland), Felix Starker (Reykjavik, Iceland), Jeroen Nijman (Reykjavik, Iceland) and Victoria Pamela Anne Clark (Reykjavik, Iceland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic foot can allow a user to engage in different activity levels, for example, walking and running using the same prosthetic foot. The prosthetic foot can have an elongate sole member, a first upper member, and a second pre-compressed upper member such that a distal end of th...