US Patent Issued to CORESTRAIGHT on Aug. 19 for "Portable thoracic brace with spinal traction and method" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,355, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to CORESTRAIGHT LTD. (Ontario, Canada).

"Portable thoracic brace with spinal traction and method" was invented by Armen Avagyan (Ajax, Canada), Primoz Cresnik (Milton, Canada) and Brian Petz (Ancaster, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable traction device includes: a traction rod including a superior segment, and an inferior segment; a lower anchoring assembly coupled to the inferior segment of the traction rod, the lower anchoring assembly configured for affixing to a lower torso of a user; an upper anchoring assembly movably coupled to the superior segment of the traction rod, the upp...