US Patent Issued to The Curators of the University of Missouri on Oct. 6 for "Variable resistance device" (Missouri, California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,145, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Mo.).

"Variable resistance device" was invented by Ashok Midha (Rolla, Mo.), Vamsi Lodagala (Rolla, Mo.), Pratheek Bagivalu Prasanna (Rolla, Mo.), Kyle Buschkoetter (University City, Mo.), Jyothi Komatireddy (Schaumburg, Ill.) and Sushrut G. Bapat (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variable resistance device includes first and second body elements and a force-generating system disposed therebetween. The force-generating system includes a resiliently deflectable beam extending relative to the first body element and toward the se...