ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,259, issued on April 21, was assigned to OTTO BOCK HEALTHCARE PRODUCTS GMBH (Vienna).
"Prosthetic system, joint protection device, and cover element" was invented by Marton Balint (Vienna), Johannes Bischof (Wiener Neustadt, Austria), Walter Lunzer (Vienna), Thomas Ecker-Wessely (Eichgraben, Austria), Alice Scherb (Stockerau, Austria) and Sonja Wagner (Vienna).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic system with a prosthesis, which has two prosthetic parts that are pivotally connected together about a joint axis via a prosthetic joint with a joint upper part and with a joint lower part, and a cover element, which at least partly c...