ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,736, issued on March 11.
"Method of manufacturing prosthetic socket interface" was invented by Randall D. Alley (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and T. Walley Williams III (Belmont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing an interface for a body part using an additive manufacturing process is described. The method obtaining a digital model of the body part and modifying the digital model, and spacing a plurality of compression areas around a long axis of the digital model to create a compression pattern. The compression pattern is sized and dimensioned to compress soft tissue of the body part against the skeletal stru...