ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,065, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to suitX Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Torso interface for a trunk supporting exoskeleton" was invented by John Kuwata (El Cerrito, Calif.), Wayne Yi-Wei Tung (Emeryville, Calif.), Minerva Pillai (Redwood City, Calif.), Michael McKinley (Berkeley, Calif.), Yi Zeng (Emeryville, Calif.), Zhendong Liu (Emeryville, Calif.), Jing-song Huang (Emeryville, Calif.), Logan Van Engelhoven (Emeryville, Calif.), Homayoon Kazerooni (Berkeley, Calif.), Markus Tuttemann (Duderstadt, Germany), Fabienne Roschel (Duderstadt, Germany), Oliver Mizera (Goettingen, Germany) and Maximiliam Merker (Goettingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Pa...