ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,049, issued on March 31, was assigned to Suncall Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Gait motion assisting apparatus" was invented by Rei Takahashi (Kyoto, Japan), Yukinobu Makihara (Tokyo), Yuichi Sawada (Kyoto, Japan), Yoshiyuki Higashi (Kyoto, Japan) and Koji Ohata (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a gait motion assisting apparatus of the present invention, a thigh phase angle calculating unit calculating a thigh phase angle divides an unnormalized hip joint angle obtained based on a angle-related signal from a thigh orientation detecting unit by a stored hip joint angle normalization coefficient to calculate a normalized hip jo...