ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,732, issued on June 2, was assigned to HUMAN IN MOTION ROBOTICS INC. (North Vancouver, Canada).

"System for guiding motions of a target joint" was invented by Siamak Arzanpour (North Vancouver, Canada), Jung Wook Park (Surrey, Canada), Liam Page (Surrey, Canada), Shaun Paul Bourgeois (Surrey, Canada) and Behzad Peykari (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of a motion guiding device of a target joint of a target body are disclosed. The device allows three degree-of-freedom (DOF) motion about a remote center of rotation that is approximately aligned to a center of rotation of the target joint. The device comprises ...