US Patent Issued to PRECISION VALVE & AUTOMATION on March 17 for "3D printed structurally sound prosthetic socket" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,935, issued on March 17, was assigned to PRECISION VALVE & AUTOMATION INC. (Halfmoon, N.Y.).

"3D printed structurally sound prosthetic socket" was invented by Eric Stephen Duma (Wilton, N.Y.), Jason Curtis Schoen (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Karin Cecilia Backlin Schaffer (Loudonville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for 3D printing a prosthetic socket from a digital model, including printing a solid wall perimeter of the prosthetic socket with a width achieved in a single pass of a printing nozzle, and forming a plurality of stiffener elements proximate a bottom end of the prosthetic socket, as a function of the printing t...