US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College on Feb. 24 for "Soft exosuit for assistance with human motion" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,774, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Soft exosuit for assistance with human motion" was invented by Conor Walsh (Cambridge, Mass.), Alan Thomas Asbeck (Cambridge, Mass.), Ye Ding (Cambridge, Mass.), Ignacio Galiana Bujanda (Cambridge, Mass.) and Stefano Marco Maria De Rossi (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a motion control system includes an actuator having an actuation member, the actuation member having a proximal end attached to the actuator on a first side of a joint and a distal end attached to an anchor element attachment point on a ...