ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,635, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ESSITY HYGIENE AND HEALTH AKTIEBOLAG (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Compression article" was invented by Sascha Platz (Kleve, Germany), Verena Voss (Hamburg, Germany) and Joachim Bauer (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compression article and method for its production on a knitting machine, in particular a flat-bed knitting machine, wherein, in the compression article, respectively the number of stitches per stitch row is matched to the radial circumference of the body part to be treated by the compression article, and which compression article has a plurality of points which are dis...