US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on Oct. 20 for "Adaptive insole for rehabilitation of foot injuries" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,640, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Adaptive insole for rehabilitation of foot injuries" was invented by Jeffrey A Gusenoff (Pittsburgh), Beth R. Gusenoff (Pittsburgh) and Steven Regis Donahoe (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An insole for offloading injuries on an area of a plantar surface of a patient's foot includes a body having a shape corresponding to the plantar surface of the patient's foot including a top surface and a bottom surface; and at least one supportive, deformable, deflatable bubble chamber. The at least one bubble ...