US Patent Issued to Ossur Iceland ehf on Sept. 16 for "Prosthetic feet with increased flexibility to accommodate different heel heights" (Icelander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,867, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Ossur Iceland ehf (Reykjavik, Iceland).

"Prosthetic feet with increased flexibility to accommodate different heel heights" was invented by Maria Gudrun Sveinbjornsdottir (Mosfellsbaer, Iceland), Jeroen Nijman (Reykjavik, Iceland), David Sandahl (Reykjavik, Iceland) and Aron Kristbjorn Albertsson (Hafnarfjordur, Iceland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic foot plate can have adjustable flexibility in the toe region, the metatarsal area, and/or the arch to accommodate different heights to which a heel region of the prosthetic foot plate is raised. The adjustable flexibility can be provi...