US Patent Issued to Qolo on Sept. 15 for "Assistance device and moving device using same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,084, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Qolo Inc..

"Assistance device and moving device using same" was invented by Kai Sasaki (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assistance device that can independently control an assistance of a bending and stretching motion of a knee and an assistance of an upper body posture is provided. An assistance device includes a base, a first link fixed to the base, a second link rotatably coupled to the first link, a third link rotatably coupled to the second link, and an elastic connection portion incorporated between a predetermined position on the first link or the base and the third li...