US Patent Issued to OSSUR HF on Sept. 30 for "Progressive force strap assembly for use with an orthopedic device" (Icelander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,048, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to OSSUR HF (Reykjavik, Iceland).

"Progressive force strap assembly for use with an orthopedic device" was invented by Bjorn Omarsson (Reykjavik, Iceland), Arni Thor Ingimundarson (Reykjavik, Iceland), Valgeir Petursson (Reykjavik, Iceland) and Hildur Inga Thorsteinsdottir (Reykjavik, Iceland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A progressive strap assembly includes an elongate, inelastic body having first and second ends, and an elastic body having first and second ends, the first end of the elastic body anchored to the second end of the inelastic body. The elastic body is arranged to stretch a plura...