US Patent Issued to ETH ZURICH on Aug. 26 for "Body support device, the use of it and a method of handling loads" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,875, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to ETH ZURICH (Zurich).

"Body support device, the use of it and a method of handling loads" was invented by Volker Bartenbach (Uster, Switzerland), Jan Thomas Meyer (Zurich), Rrahim Gashi (Zofingen, Switzerland) and Roger Gassert (Wetzikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A body support device to support at least one part of a body when lifting and/or carrying, having at least a first body fastening element fixable above a human's hip joint, at least a second body fastening element mechanically fixable below a human's hip joint and merely on the back side at least one elastic, which mec...