ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,254, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to DRAGER SAFETY AG & Co. KGAA (Lubeck, Germany).
"Exoskeleton with a back plate" was invented by Lennart Wenzel (Lubeck, Germany), Peer GroB (Lubeck, Germany) and Torben Soker (Lubeck, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exoskeleton (100) includes a flexible support component (5.l, 5.r, 2.l, 2.r, 4.l, 4.r) that a user (B) can attach to his/her body in order to lift a load. An object can be attached to a rigid back plate (1). The user (B) is a firefighter, for example, and the object on the back plate (1) is a compressed air cylinder (50) for breathing air. The flexible support component (5....