US Patent Issued to SOCIETE DE COMMERCIALISATION DES PRODUITS DE LA RECHERCHE APPLIQUEE SOCPRA SCIENCES SANTE ET HUMAINES on May 26 for "System for simulating thoracic cage and lumbar spine region" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,058, issued on May 26, was assigned to SOCIETE DE COMMERCIALISATION DES PRODUITS DE LA RECHERCHE APPLIQUEE SOCPRA SCIENCES SANTE ET HUMAINES S.E.C. (Sherbrooke, Canada).

"System for simulating thoracic cage and lumbar spine region" was invented by Patrick Boissy (Sherbrooke, Canada), Mathieu Hamel (Magog, Canada), Karina Lebel (Sherbrooke, Canada) and Philippe-Olivier Provost (Sherbrooke, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lumbar spine mechanism for a mannequin may include three or more joint units serially connected to provide joints for three or more rotational degrees of freedom (DOF). A rotational axis of a first DOF is confi...