ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,050, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Intelligent serial elastic assistive apparatus for legged robot linkage driving device" was invented by Chung-Hsien Kuo (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Yu-Cheng Kuo (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intelligent serial elastic assistive apparatus for a legged robot linkage driving device includes a linkage driving device and an intelligent serial elastic assistive device. The linkage driving device includes a thigh linkage rod, a calf linkage rod, a driving linkage rod, a driving connection member, and a driving motor. The int...