US Patent Issued to Ottobock on March 25 for "Device for supporting at least one arm of a user" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,168, issued on March 25, was assigned to Ottobock SE & Co. KGAA (Duderstadt, Germany).

"Device for supporting at least one arm of a user" was invented by Oliver Mizera (Gottingen, Germany), Annedore Kurzweg (Gottingen, Germany), Luder Mosler (Duderstadt, Germany), Jonas Bornmann (Duderstadt, Germany), Samantha Fox (Waitsfield, Vt.) and Benjamin Schirrmeister (Gottingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device for supporting at least one arm 4 of a user 2. The device has at least one arm support element 6 with an arm shell 10 for placing on the arm 4, at least one passive actuator 26 that is configure...