US Patent Issued to The Jackson Laboratory on Oct. 27 for "Gait and posture analysis" (Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,129, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Maine).

"Gait and posture analysis" was invented by Vivek Kumar (Bar Harbor, Maine), Keith Sheppard (Bar Harbor, Maine) and Gautam Sabnis (Bar Harbor, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein provide techniques for analyzing gait and posture of a subject with respect to control data. The systems and methods, in some embodiments, processes video data, identifies keypoints representing body parts, determines metrics data at a stride level, and compares the metrics data to control data."

The patent was filed on Dec. 29, 2021, un...