US Patent Issued to Ottobock on Aug. 11 for "Prosthetic foot" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,571, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Ottobock SE & Co. KGaA (Duderstadt, Germany).

"Prosthetic foot" was invented by Jeff Friesen (Salt Lake City), Nathan A. Williams (Salt Lake City), Justin R. Smith (West Jordan, Utah) and Kelli D. Oborn (Erda, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic foot is provided with a forefoot spring, a heel spring and a base spring. The base spring is connected to the heel spring and to the forefoot spring. The base spring has receiving means for the forefoot spring and the heel spring, into which receiving means the heel spring and the forefoot spring can be inserted. The heel spring is connecte...