US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, suitX on Jan. 13 for "Trunk supporting exoskeleton and method of use" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,869, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and suitX Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Trunk supporting exoskeleton and method of use" was invented by Wayne Yi-Wei Tung (Berkeley, Calif.), Nathan Poon (Oakland, Calif.), Theerapat Yangyuenthanasan (Berkeley, Calif.) and Homayoon Kazerooni (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trunk supporting exoskeleton comprises: a supporting trunk; thigh links configured to move in unison with a wearer's thighs; and first and second torque generators located on both left and right halves of the wearer substantially close to the weare...