ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,872, issued on May 27.
"Thumb orthosis and set of a plurality of thumb orthoses" was invented by Martin Talke (Berlin), Matthias Roller (Balingen, Germany) and Helmut Wagner (Duderstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a thumb orthosis (2). The thumb orthosis (2) consists of a spreading body (1) which in particular has a bending elasticity and which serves for spreading a thumb (26) and a pointer finger (27). Furthermore, the thumb orthosis (2) comprises holding devices (22, 23) by which an end portion (28) of the spreading body (1) can be held at the thumb (26) as well as an end portion (29) of the sp...