US Patent Issued to THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS on Dec. 9 for "Static goniometer gage and set" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,917, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (Washington).

"Static goniometer gage and set" was invented by Dana Rae Rorie (Charleston, S.C.), Shawn Ethan Katalinas (Johns Island, S.C.) and Bethany Baldwin (Charleston, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Static goniometer gages having no moving parts are provided in a set of static goniometer gages to permit measurements of angles over a range of angles. Static goniometers in the set having lobes subtending different angles are used to measure joint range of motion in flexion, extension, abduction and adductio...