US Patent Issued to ETH Zurich on Sept. 29 for "Moving device for moving a human thumb, hand-exoskeleton and method of grasping" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,171, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to ETH Zurich (Zurich).

"Moving device for moving a human thumb, hand-exoskeleton and method of grasping" was invented by Tobias Lukas Buetzer (Zug, Switzerland), Antoine Nicolas Aupee (Lausanne, Switzerland), Roger Gassert (Zurich), Olivier Lambercy (Zurich) and Urs Alexander Tassilo Hofmann (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A moving device for moving a human thumb, in particular for moving the thumb between a resting position and a grasping position. A thumb bending section is adapted to at least partially move the thumb between a flexed position and an extended position. The thumb bendin...