US Patent Issued to University of Utah Research Foundation on Nov. 11 for "Volitional EMG controller for a powered knee prosthesis" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,502, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City).

"Volitional EMG controller for a powered knee prosthesis" was invented by Tommaso Lenzi (Salt Lake City), Suzi Creveling (Salt Lake City) and Lukas R. Gabert (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are prosthetic systems comprising a powered knee upper leg prosthesis and a volitional controller configured to provide control of the prosthesis to the user. The prosthetic system may be configured to enable a user to climb a set of stairs. The prosthetic system may be activated by the activation of an EMG signal source, such ...