ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,459, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to KOYA MEDICAL INC. (Oakland, Calif.).
"Compression garment apparatus" was invented by John Pamplin (Oakland, Calif.) and Robert Dennis (Chapel Hill, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compression garment apparatus for a body part of an human and/or animal having a flexible backing, attaching means, a segmented flex frame, and a shape memory alloy on the segmented flex frame. The shape memory alloy can be connected to two terminals on the frame forming a circuit. A controller can be connected to the terminals applying current to the shape memory alloy at defined intervals providing intermitten...