US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY on July 14 for "Adaptive and variable stiffness ankle brace" (California, Texas, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,314, issued on July 14, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.), THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY (Oakland, Calif.) and THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY (Silver Springs, Md.).

"Adaptive and variable stiffness ankle brace" was invented by Kenneth Loh (San Diego), Yingjun Zhao (La Jolla, Calif.), Yujin Park (Austin, Texas), John Fraser (San Diego), Shawn Farrokhi (Fort Detrick, Md.), Pinata Sessoms (San Diego), Amy Silder (San Diego) and Adam Yoder (Fort Detrick, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments o...