ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,689, issued on March 25, was assigned to SOFRADIM PRODUCTION (Trevoux, France).

"Prosthesis comprising a three-dimensional and openworked knit" was invented by Julie Lecuivre (Jassans-Riottier, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a prosthesis (100) comprising an openworked three-dimensional knit (101) comprising a front face and a rear face, each face being formed with one or more laps of yarns defining pores on said face, the front face being bound to the rear face by connecting yarns defining a spacer, characterized in that the connecting yarns are distributed so that they define an entanglement ...