ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,452, issued on July 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Exoskeleton system to provide assistance for users performing activities" was invented by Aaron K. Baughman (Cary, N.C.), Amit Kumar Raha (Barrackpore, India), Kavitha Hassan Yogaraj (Bangalore, India) and Christian Eggenberger-Wang (Wil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach for assisting users with physical activities by using one or more exoskeleton suits is disclosed. The approach includes, receiving a plurality of data from a user and devices; analyzing one or more problems associated with the plurality of data; determ...