US Patent Issued to OTTOBOCK on Sept. 8 for "Method for producing a prosthetic liner and system consisting of prosthetic liner and prosthetic socket" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,020, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to OTTOBOCK SE & CO KGAA (Duderstadt, Germany).

"Method for producing a prosthetic liner and system consisting of prosthetic liner and prosthetic socket" was invented by Lars Benjamin Finke (Landolfshausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for producing a prosthetic liner for insertion into a prosthetic socket, which comprises a receptacle having a distal end and a proximal edge for a residual limb and the prosthetic liner. The method comprises determining a sealing lip contour on the outer face of the prosthetic liner which corresponds to a height contour o...