US Patent Issued to Ottobock on April 8 for "Device for supporting both arms of a user" (German, Austrian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,623, issued on April 8, was assigned to Ottobock SE & Co. KGAA (Duderstadt, Germany).

"Device for supporting both arms of a user" was invented by Oliver Mizera (Gottingen, Germany), Annedore Kurzweg (Gottingen, Germany), Luder Mosler (Duderstadt, Germany), Samantha Fox (Waitsfield, Vt.), Benjamin Schirrmeister (Gottingen, Germany), Matthias Vollbrecht (Herzberg, Germany), Meike Kehnen (Gottingen, Germany) and Sonja Wagner (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates a device for supporting two arms 4 of a user 2 wherein the device has two arm support elements 6, each of which has an arm shell 10 for placing on an arm ...