US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, TOYOTA SCHOOL FOUNDATION on July 7 for "Power assist system and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,418, issued on July 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and TOYOTA SCHOOL FOUNDATION (Nagoya, Japan).

"Power assist system and storage medium" was invented by Masashi Yamashita (Miyoshi, Japan), Yuhei Yamaguchi (Toyota, Japan), Hitoshi Yamada (Toyota, Japan) and Tatsuo Narikiyo (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power assist system according to the present disclosure includes: a robot that is worn by a user, the robot including a drive source that assists action of the user; an interference force estimation unit that estimates an interference force given from the user to the robot; an admittance model t...