US 12,127,962 B2
Plantar fasciitis recovery device
Craig DiGiovanni, Collyville, TX (US); and Andrew Sawyers, Hurst, TX (US)
Assigned to Medi-Dyne Healthcare Products, Ltd., Collyville, TX (US)
Filed by Medi-Dyne Healthcare Products, Ltd., Collyville, TX (US)
Filed on Nov. 27, 2018, as Appl. No. 16/201,326.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/590,758, filed on Nov. 27, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2019/0159920 A1, May 30, 2019
Int. Cl. A61F 5/01 (2006.01); A61F 5/37 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 5/0111 (2013.01) [A61F 5/3715 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sock device comprising:
A) a first anchor;
B) a sock, wherein the sock comprises a toe portion and a heel portion, wherein the sock comprises an upper surface and a lower surface, wherein the lower surface is configured to be located underneath a user's foot when adorned, and wherein the first anchor is indirectly and removably attached to the sock;
C) a strap, wherein the strap indirectly and removably attaches the first anchor to the sock;
D) a distributor, wherein the distributor is made from a solid piece of a semi-flexible or rigid material; and
E) a pocket located on an underneath side of the toe portion of the sock having a width that spans the entire or substantially entire width of the underneath side of the toe portion of the sock, wherein an outside edge of the pocket is permanently and directly attached to the lower surface of the sock to form the pocket having an opening for receiving the distributor, and wherein the pocket has a depth that spans less than half a distance from the heel portion of the sock to the toe portion of the sock,
wherein the distributor has dimensions selected such that the distributor fits within the pocket, and
wherein A, B, C, D, and E are separate structures from each other.