US Patent Issued to FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA, I.N.A.I.L. ISTITUTO NAZIONALE PER L'ASSICURAZIONE CONTRO GLI INFORTUNI SUL LAVORO on Oct. 6 for "Powered exoskeleton joint" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,887, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA (Genoa, Italy) and I.N.A.I.L. ISTITUTO NAZIONALE PER L'ASSICURAZIONE CONTRO GLI INFORTUNI SUL LAVORO (Rome).

"Powered exoskeleton joint" was invented by Riccardo Vaccaro (Genoa, Italy), Simone Traverso (Genoa, Italy), Michele Canepa (Genoa, Italy), Lorenzo De Michieli (Genoa, Italy) and Matteo Laffranchi (Genoa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powered exoskeleton joint includes an actuation unit and an actuation arm mounted oscillatingly onto the actuation unit. The actuation unit moves the actuation arm oscillatingly around the joint. The actuati...