US Patent Issued to Bauerfeind on July 15 for "Hard frame with pivotable bridge" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,486, issued on July 15, was assigned to Bauerfeind AG (Zeulenroda-Triebes, Germany).

"Hard frame with pivotable bridge" was invented by Florian Gornert (Zeulenroda-Triebes, Germany), Sandro Hebenstreit (Zeulenroda-Triebes, Germany) and Hans B. Bauerfeind (Zeulenroda-Triebes, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a hard frame (100) for a joint-bridging extremity joint orthosis, containing two mutually opposed longitudinally extending joint splints (110, 120), the proximal joint arms (113, 123) thereof being connected to one another via a transverse proximal bridge arch (310) and forming a proximal extremity h...