US Patent Issued to OSSUR ICELAND EHF on Sept. 23 for "Ventilated prosthetic socket and kit for making the same" (Icelander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,762, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to OSSUR ICELAND EHF (Reykjavik, Iceland).

"Ventilated prosthetic socket and kit for making the same" was invented by Sigurdur Hannesson (Reykjavik, Iceland), Oskar Thor Larusson (Reykjavik, Iceland), Margret Sol Ragnarsdottir (Reykjavik, Iceland) and Dadi Granz (Reykjavik, Iceland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ventilated prosthetic socket includes a rigid, structural and load-bearing socket body forming an inner volume adapted to receive a residual limb, and a wall thickness extending from an inner wall surface bordering the inner volume to an outer wall surface. The socket body defines an o...