US Patent Issued to Taska Prosthetics on March 17 for "Prosthesis coupling, a socket coupling, a rotary connector core and a compliant mounting element" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,947, issued on March 17, was assigned to Taska Prosthetics Ltd. (Christchurch, New Zealand).

"Prosthesis coupling, a socket coupling, a rotary connector core and a compliant mounting element" was invented by Ross Hughan Dawson (Christchurch, New Zealand), Mathew James Jury (Wellington, New Zealand), David Neil Lovegrove (Christchurch, New Zealand), Michael James Van Der Werff (Christchurch, New Zealand) and Matthew Sultan Yan (Christchurch, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotatable and removable wrist connection for a prosthetic hand. A prosthesis coupling includes first and second ball race sections that may be moved t...