ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,762, issued on June 10, was assigned to OTTOBOCK SE & Co. KGAA (Duderstadt, Germany).
"Ankle/foot orthosis" was invented by Jan Johnsson (Norrkoping, Sweden), Gordon Siewert (Gottingen, Germany), Heiko Drewitz (Gleichen, Germany), Olaf Kroll-Orywahl (Gottingen, Germany), Maximilian Segl (Duderstadt, Germany), Marcus Lurssen (Gottingen, Germany), Markus Tuttemann (Duderstadt, Germany), Boris Ljubimir (Waltrop, Germany), Norbert Schimek (Duderstadt, Germany), Wolfgang Keiner (Kirchworbis, Germany) and Alexander Schmitt (Kassel, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ankle/foot orthosis with a foot part, which has a sole for receivin...