US Patent Issued to Rubber City Bracing on Feb. 24 for "Living hinge for athletic brace or support" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,246, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Rubber City Bracing Co. LLC (Akron, Ohio).

"Living hinge for athletic brace or support" was invented by Dustin Ducharme (Littleton, Colo.), Annunziato Amendola (Durham, N.C.), Bryan Den Hartog (Urbandale, Iowa), David B. Kay (Akron, Ohio), Anthony Perera (Cardiff, Great Britain), Brian Milliff (Kirtland, Ohio) and Patrick Brown (Cleveland Heights, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of donning a rear-entry ankle brace includes positioning the brace on a mid-foot and a lower leg portion to span an ankle joint, with a distal end portion extending over a top and medial and lateral sides o...