ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,001, issued on March 17, was assigned to Udaya Sankar Devanaboyina (Fremont, Calif.).

"Systems and methods to simulate hydrostatic force on a user with minimal shear force" was invented by Udaya Sankar Devanaboyina (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for exerting forces on a body, including a support structure defining a space and a plurality of surface contacting units that are configured to exert force upon the body, such that the weight is distributed away from the primary weight bearing regions to non-weight bearing regions of the body, or vice versa, without exerting significant shear or friction...