US Patent Issued to THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY on June 30 for "Method and system to activate limb movement in amputees" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,472, issued on June 30, was assigned to THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (Washington) and NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Ill.).

"Method and system to activate limb movement in amputees" was invented by Matthew Justin Major (Chicago), Riley Marshall Knox (Mill Valley, Calif.), Matthew Lawrence Elwin (Chicago) and Yael Ben Shalom (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A limb activation system includes a sensor configured to monitor movement of a user. The system also includes a processor operatively coupled to the sensor and configured to determine, based on the moveme...