ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,832, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Julius Zom Inc. (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio).

"Method for producing a compression knitted fabric for prosthetic stockings" was invented by Siegfried Lechner (Schrobenhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing tubular compression knitted fabric includes: knitting a tubular first section of a basic knitted fabric forming stitches from at least one knitting yarn along a knitting direction, with a plurality of rows of stitches following one another in the knitting direction and an elastic weft yarn bound into the stitches via tuck stitches; and seamlessly knitting of a second s...