US Patent Issued to OSSUR HR on March 18 for "Support for articles and methods for using the same" (Icelander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,327, issued on March 18, was assigned to OSSUR HR (Reykjavik, Iceland).

"Support for articles and methods for using the same" was invented by Sindri Pall Sigurdsson (Reykjavik, Iceland), Bjorn Omarsson (Reykjavik, Iceland) and Stefan Orn Stefansson (Reykjavik, Iceland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support for an article has a body arranged for length adjustment along a length adjustment axis. A tensioning device is connected to the support and adjustment of the tensioning device shortens or lengthens a length of the support along the length adjustment axis. The body defines at least one opening overlapping at least part of the le...