ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,650, issued on May 27, was assigned to TRONJEN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. (Taichung, Taiwan).
"Pressure relief cushion" was invented by Szu-Hsien Chen (Taichung, Taiwan), Ya-Wen Ku (Taichung, Taiwan), Ren-Shian Wang (Taichung, Taiwan) and Chiu-Fang Chen (Taichung, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pressure relief cushion includes an elastic layer which is made from a viscoelastic foam material, an adhesive carrying layer disposed on the elastic layer and including an adhesive portion and a carrier portion for carrying the adhesive portion, a hydrogel layer disposed on the adhesive carrying layer opposite to the elastic layer, and ...