US Patent Issued to STARFISH OF SWEDEN on July 14 for "Contact and support structures comprising a plurality of fingers" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,358, issued on July 14, was assigned to STARFISH OF SWEDEN AB (Malmo, Sweden).

"Contact and support structures comprising a plurality of fingers" was invented by Jonas Ahlqvist (Malmo, Sweden), Tim Kovac (Anderslov, Sweden), Johan Reerslev (Malmo, Sweden), Daniel Nevala (Malmo, Sweden), Mikaela Albertsson (Malmo, Sweden) and Rickard Dahan (Limhamn, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support structure for supporting and/or contacting a body or a part of a body. The support structure includes: a base layer having a first surface configured to face the body or part of body and a second surface opposite the first surface, a pluralit...