US Patent Issued to Bioness Medical on July 21 for "Compliant mechanism for improving reaction torque sensing in robotic actuators" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,111, issued on July 21, was assigned to Bioness Medical Inc. (Valencia, Calif.).

"Compliant mechanism for improving reaction torque sensing in robotic actuators" was invented by William Wu (Austin, Texas), Rohit John Varghese (Austin, Texas) and Youngmok Yun (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic system has a bracket that helps integrate a load sensor into a robotic actuator such that the sensor is not overly affected by loads not aligned with its load sensing axis (which can lead to inaccurate measurements of the desired load). The bracket includes: (a) a tube having an exterior wall and a hollow interior, (b) a fir...