US Patent Issued to IUVO S.R.L on July 14 for "System and process for estimation of gait phase for use with a wearable robot" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,935, issued on July 14, was assigned to IUVO S.R.L (Pontedera, Italy).

"System and process for estimation of gait phase for use with a wearable robot" was invented by Chiara Livolsi (Pontedera, Italy), Simona Crea (Pontedera, Italy), Roberto Conti (Pontedera, Italy), Francesco Giovacchini (Pontedera, Italy) and Nicola Vitiello (Pontedera, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable robot and method for controlling the wearable robot having at least one leg unit involves: (a) obtaining at least one input signal from at least one encoder tracking a hip joint angle versus time with the at least one encoder attached to the wearable r...