US Patent Issued to OZYEGIN UNIVERSITESI on Feb. 3 for "2 degrees of freedom prosthetic wrist structure" (Turkish, Sudanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,221, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to OZYEGIN UNIVERSITESI (Istanbul).

"2 degrees of freedom prosthetic wrist structure" was invented by Ramazan Unal (Istanbul), Ahmed Abdelrahman Ibrahim Elsayed (Khartoum, Sudan) and Baris Baysal (Istanbul).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic wrist unit providing a connection between the arm and a hand mechanism, comprising a wrist base unit with at least one connection slot into which the hand mechanism is to be inserted and at least one connecting piece enabling the rotational movement of the prosthetic wrist unit; a joint including a joint seat and a joint body; a locking mechanism compris...