US Patent Issued to Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International on Sept. 2 for "Body weight load reduction device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,061, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (Kyoto, Japan).

"Body weight load reduction device" was invented by Tomoyuki Noda (Kyoto, Japan), Tatsuya Teramae (Kyoto, Japan), Asuka Takai (Kyoto, Japan), Junichiro Furukawa (Kyoto, Japan), Jun Morimoto (Kyoto, Japan) and Nao Nakano (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A body weight unloading apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes a first actuator, a second actuator, a first support member, a second support member, a sensor for measuring the imbalance between floor reaction forces respectively ac...