ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,561, issued on March 4.
"Foot orthosis" was invented by Andrey Degtyar (Haifa, Israel) and Oleg Shlomo Gendelman (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus (20, 200) including a leaf spring assembly (22, 220) shaped to define a first end (32), a second end (34), and a middle portion (36) including a plurality of layered leaf springs (40). The spring is placed across a joint such that the first end is placed against a first location on a first side of the joint, and the second end is placed against a second location on a second side of the joint. When the leaf spring is constrained between the first and second locations, ...