ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,073, issued on July 29, was assigned to Gen3 Medical LLC (Fayetteville, Ga.).
"Device for immobilizing a shoulder" was invented by Michael Cushing (Fayetteville, Ga.), Nikolaj Kloch (Mount Pleasant, S.C.) and Russell Foley (Newnan, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device immobilizes a shoulder joint and associated upper arm and forearm of a human patient in a selected relative position. The device comprises a platform including a planar base portion and a pair of opposed parallel side walls extending upwardly from the longitudinal edges of the base portion. The platform supportively receives and at least partially encloses the fo...