US Patent Issued to Aspen Medical Products on April 22 for "Brace with slidable, internal lateral panel" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,985, issued on April 22, was assigned to Aspen Medical Products LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Brace with slidable, internal lateral panel" was invented by Albert V. Romo (Lakewood, Calif.) and Geoffrey Wong (Costa Mesa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brace configured to wrap around a lumbar region of a wearer features a first arm and a second arm. Each arm features a first band, a panel slidably disposed at a lateral side of the wearer and coupled to the first band, and a loop connector coupled to the panel on a first end of the panel. The first band has a horizontally extending channel, within which the panel moves. The panel featu...