ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,889, issued on May 13, was assigned to Otto Bock Healthcare Products GmbH (Vienna).
"Actuator and heat store for actuator" was invented by Harald Sima (Herzogenburg, Austria), Juan Pablo Mejia Nino (Modling, Austria) and Joachim Haglage (Rohrau, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an actuator for an orthopedic device with an actuator housing and a heat store for storing the heat produced during operation of the actuator, the heat store having a heat store housing that has a cavity and a heat storage medium present therein, or consisting of a heat storage medium. The heat store is designed to be attachable ...