US Patent Issued to KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 8 for "Motion assistance apparatus" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,064, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Seoul, South Korea).

"Motion assistance apparatus" was invented by Jongwon Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Jong Bok Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a motion assistance apparatus that includes a fixing module which is fixed to a part of the body of a user, a support module which supports another part of the body of the user and is rotatable relative to the fixing module, a first driving module which is positioned between the fixing module and the support module and abducts the support module relative to the fixing module,...