US Patent Issued to Dephy on May 26 for "Real-time feedback-based optimization of an exoskeleton" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,218, issued on May 26, was assigned to Dephy Inc..

"Real-time feedback-based optimization of an exoskeleton" was invented by Luke Mooney (Sudbury, Mass.), Jean-Francois Duval (Belmont, Mass.), Rachel Harris (Cambridge, Mass.) and Jonathan Kaplan (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining a level of collaboration between a user and an exoskeleton boot are provided. A device, using an exoskeleton boot, can provide a level of force to a limb of a user to aid movement of the limb. The device can measure one or more parameters of the exoskeleton boot during the movement of the limb using the exoskele...