US Patent Issued to New York Society For The Relief Of The Ruptured And Crippled, maintaining The Hospital For Special Surgery on Dec. 9 for "Cleat assembly" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,812, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to New York Society For The Relief Of The Ruptured And Crippled, maintaining The Hospital For Special Surgery (New York).

"Cleat assembly" was invented by Hernan Sanchez (Carmel, N.Y.), Laurence Piturro (Mount Kisco, N.Y.), Bo Li (Hamilton, N.J.), Howard Hillstrom (New York), Andrew Kraszewski (New York) and Mark Drakos (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleat assembly for a shoe comprising an anchor for anchoring to the shoe, a cleat, a first biasing member circumscribing the anchor and engaged with the cleat, and a second biasing member biasing the first biasing member. The...