US Patent Issued to Ottobock on July 14 for "Prosthetic foot" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,303, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ottobock SE & Co. KGaA (Duderstadt, Germany).

"Prosthetic foot" was invented by Sven Kaltenborn (Duderstadt, Germany), Martin Pusch (Duderstadt, Germany) and Georg Gehrmann (Gottingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a prosthetic foot comprising a main body (10), a proximal connection device (15) for connecting the prosthetic foot (1) to a further prosthesis component, and a foot-front component (12) which is pivotally mounted on the main body (10) and which is associated with a resistance device (20), which resistance device retards plantar flexion of the foot-f...