US Patent Issued to OSSUR ICELAND EHF on March 17 for "Liner having different regions of elongation" (Icelander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,951, issued on March 17, was assigned to OSSUR ICELAND EHF (Reykjavik, Iceland).

"Liner having different regions of elongation" was invented by Sigurdur Asgeirsson (Reykjavik, Iceland), Larus Sigfusson (Reykjavik, Iceland) and Linda Ros Birgisdottir (Reykjavik, Iceland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic liner includes a textile cover having at least first and second regions having different elongation from one another. The first region is in a prestretched configuration in at least one orientation relative to an axis of the prosthetic liner and locked in the prestretched configuration according to a layer of elastomeric mat...