ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,098, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY (Tainan City, Taiwan).

"Rehabilitation device with a rolling unit to stretch the upper limbs" was invented by Yao-Lung Kuo (Tainan City, Taiwan), Chih-Han Chang (Tainan City, Taiwan), Li-Chieh Kuo (Tainan City, Taiwan), Kang-Chin Yang (Tainan City, Taiwan), Yu-Chen Lin (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Ping-Han Chuang (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rehabilitation device includes a base unit, a circuit unit, a rolling unit, and a holding unit. The circuit unit includes a distance measuring element, which is partially exposed on a bottom surface of ...