US Patent Issued to TACTILE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY on April 7 for "Self-contained portable positionable oscillating motor array with strap tension sensing elements" (Texas, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,217, issued on April 7, was assigned to TACTILE SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY INC. (Minneapolis).

"Self-contained portable positionable oscillating motor array with strap tension sensing elements" was invented by Harold David Shockley Jr. (Austin, Texas), Geoffrey Albert Marcek (Austin, Texas) and Robert Wiley Ellis (Miramar, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device system including a wearable harness worn, during use, on a torso of a subject. Engines coupled to the wearable harness apply an oscillation force to at least one treatment area of the subject in order to mobilize at least some secretions in an airway within the subject s...