US Patent Issued to Palladyne on Sept. 15 for "Sensor suite discrepancy detection system for safe operation of an exoskeleton" (Utah Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,676, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Palladyne Corp. (Salt Lake City).

"Sensor suite discrepancy detection system for safe operation of an exoskeleton" was invented by Fraser M. Smith (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exoskeleton comprising a plurality of support structures, and a plurality of joint mechanisms each joint mechanism rotatably coupling at least two of the plurality of support structures. A sensor discrepancy detection system can be operable to compare sensor output data from a user operated force moment sensor and at least one torque sensor of a joint mechanism. A controller can be configured to rec...