ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,372, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to ESSITY HYGIENE AND HEALTH AKTIEBOLAG (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Compression garment with indicator" was invented by Peter Staab (Hamburg, Germany) and Sebastian Bannwarth (Buchholz in der Nordheide, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining, the pressure beneath a compression garment applied around a circumference of a body part, comprises an imaging device to produce image data representing a part of the garment at a measured location and a processing device, arranged to analyse the image data. The processing device uses the data to determine the circumference of the body par...