US Patent Issued to University of Houston System on Nov. 3 for "Sensorized bead-wire toy for studying finger force and manual dexterity" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,457, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to University of Houston System (Houston).

"Sensorized bead-wire toy for studying finger force and manual dexterity" was invented by Pranav J. Parikh (Richmond, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hand function testing device includes a base having a number of rigid wires protruding from a surface thereof, each rigid wire having a stationary bead affixed at a predetermined position along the rigid wire, a moving bead movably mounted on the rigid wire and movable along a working region of the rigid wire defined between a base-end of the rigid wire and the stationary bead, the moving bead being mou...