US Patent Issued to SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY on Sept. 15 for "Auxiliary support method based on variable stiffness supernumerary robotic limbs" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,675, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY (Nanjing, China).

"Auxiliary support method based on variable stiffness supernumerary robotic limbs" was invented by Hong Zeng (Nanjing, China), Huayu Zhang (Nanjing, China), Jianxi Zhang (Nanjing, China) and Aiguo Song (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An auxiliary support method based on variable stiffness supernumerary robotic limbs includes: obtaining data from a surface electromyography sensor and an inertial sensor; processing the data from the inertial sensor to determine whether a wearer has an operation intention; preprocessing the data from the surf...