US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on July 14 for "Method and system for designing a biomechanical interface contacting a biological body segment" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,301, issued on July 14, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Method and system for designing a biomechanical interface contacting a biological body segment" was invented by Hugh M. Herr (Somerville, Mass.), Kevin Mattheus Moerman (Lexington, Mass.) and David Moinina Sengeh (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and associated system for designing a biomechanical interface of a device contacting a biological body segment of a subject includes forming a quantitative model of the biological body segment from subject specific data, conducting a biophysical analysis, such as a fini...