ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,893, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to UNIVERSITAT BERN (Bern, Switzerland).

"Sensomotoric hand therapy device" was invented by Efe Anil Aksoz (Bern, Switzerland), Laura Marchal-Crespo (The Hague, Netherlands), Nathan Van Damme (Zele, Belgium) and Raphael Ratz (Thun, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a sensomotoric hand therapy device comprising a flexible shell having a first leg portion configured to accommodate fingers of a hand of a patient, a second leg portion configured to accommodate a thumb of the patient and a U-shaped portion configured to accommodate a metacarpus of the patient. ...