ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,531, issued on April 14, was assigned to Bioness Medical Inc. (Valencia, Calif.).
"Actuator for physical therapy" was invented by Rohit John Varghese (Austin, Texas), Youngmok Yun (Austin, Texas) and William Wu (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic system comprising: a joint coupling a linkage to an additional linkage; and at least one cable; wherein the joint includes a motor having a shaft, a strain wave gear having a flexible member coupled to a circular spline, a conduit, and a bearing; wherein the motor is configured to rotate the shaft in a first direction and the strain wave gear is configured to rotate a ro...