US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University on Aug. 11 for "Hip exosuit to assist hip flexion and extension" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,613, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Hip exosuit to assist hip flexion and extension" was invented by Carly Thalman (Mesa, Ariz.), Lily Baye-Wallace (Phoenix) and Hyunglae Lee (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for assisting hip flexion and extension during human locomotion. A hip exosuit comprises a hip belt comprising one or more removably attached hip anchoring mechanisms, a leg brace, one or more flexion actuators, wherein each of the one or more flexion actuators is attached at a first end to a hi...