ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,011, issued on March 31, was assigned to OTTO BOCK HEALTHCARE PRODUCTS GMBH (Vienna).
"Prosthetic hand" was invented by Christoph Ledinger (Mollersdorf, Austria) and Luis Sagmeister (Pitten, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic hand with a chassis (20) and at least one base element (10) for fastening a prosthetic finger to the chassis (20), wherein a longitudinal guide for the base element (10) is arranged or formed on the chassis (20), the base element (10) being mounted in said longitudinal guide, wherein the longitudinal guide blocks two translational degrees of freedom and a clamping element (30) is assigned to th...