ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,716, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Therabody Inc. (Los Angeles).

"Vibration therapy system and device" was invented by Jason Wersland (Los Angeles), Benjamin Nazarian (Los Angeles), Jaime Sanchez Solana (Los Angeles), Eduardo Merino (Los Angeles), Bill Webb (San Francisco) and Alex Zhu (Xiamen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vibration therapy device that includes a housing that includes a handle portion, a head portion, and a module seat defined on the head portion, an electrical source, a motor positioned in the housing, a switch for activating the motor, a push rod assembly operatively connected to the motor, a recipro...