US Patent Issued to Recovery Force on Feb. 24 for "Compression device especially for preventing deep vein thrombosis" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,287, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Recovery Force LLC (Fishers, Ind.).

"Compression device especially for preventing deep vein thrombosis" was invented by Vincent Rizzo (Westfield, Ind.) and Kevin A. Mauser (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compression device particularly suited for DVT prophylaxis includes a disposable wrap and a re-usable controller removably mounted on the wrap to apply a tensioning force to the wrap when it is encircling the limb of a patient. The wrap includes a strap wrapped around an electric motor-driven pulley, with an encoder to determine the amount of rotation of the pulley and a current ...