ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,185, issued on July 8, was assigned to BSN MEDICAL GMBH (Hamburg, Germany).
"Orthosis for fixing a shoulder joint" was invented by Jennifer Grunden (Hamburg, Germany), Timo Schmeltzpfennig (Buchholz, Germany) and Joachim Bauer (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orthosis having a strap arrangement which is designed to engage on an arm section at the elbow or adjacent to the elbow of the arm extending from the first shoulder joint, which is to be immobilized, in order to fix the elbow frontally on the body of the patient. The strap arrangement has a first strap section which is provided for at least partially looping ar...