US Patent Issued to University of Utah Research Foundation on Aug. 4 for "Powered knee and ankle prosthesis controller for adaptive ambulation" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,233, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City).

"Powered knee and ankle prosthesis controller for adaptive ambulation" was invented by Tommaso Lenzi (Salt Lake City), Lukas R. Gabert (Salt Lake City), Liam Sullivan (Salt Lake City) and Marissa Ann Cowan (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are embodiments of a volitional controller and prosthetic leg system comprising a volitional controller and a powered prosthetic leg. The volitional controller may be configured to control a powered knee joint and a powered ankle joint to enable a user to walk at different speeds an...