ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,106, issued on July 29, was assigned to PRS Medical Technologies Inc. (Portola Valley, Calif.).

"Multi-layered cushioning support" was invented by Nikhil Bhat (Fremont, Calif.), George Y. Choi (Portola Valley, Calif.), Allen J. Li (San Francisco) and Anuj Bhat (Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-layer cushion supports are described which may generally comprise a first support having a first contact surface for contacting a portion of a body and a second surface opposite to the first surface, the first support defining a central chamber and a peripheral chamber surrounding the central chamber, wherein the first su...