US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG on March 3 for "Soft exoskeleton wearable device for temporomandibular disorder (TMD) rehabilitation" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,531, issued on March 3, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"Soft exoskeleton wearable device for temporomandibular disorder (TMD) rehabilitation" was invented by Runzhi Zhang (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), James Lam (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Zheng Wang (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an exoskeleton wearable device configured to push a condyle out from a glenoid structure of a skull made of two bellows shaped actuators each having an elliptical cross-section; an upper part configured to be fixed on a forehead of a patient and provide a base for the two bellows shaped actuato...