US Patent Issued to Georgetown University on July 28 for "Assessing diseases by analyzing gait measurements" (District Of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,782, issued on July 28, was assigned to Georgetown University (Washington).

"Assessing diseases by analyzing gait measurements" was invented by Gholam Motamedi (Washington), Ophir Frieder (Chevy Chase, Md.), Cristopher Flagg (Annandale, Va.) and Jian-Young Wu (Gaithersburg, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gait analysis system, which includes a neural network with a recurrent neural network layer and a fully connected layer, that receives sensor data indicative of an individual's gait and outputs an assessment regarding the individual's health. The neural network is trained using training data indicative of abnormal gaits and nor...