ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,576, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.).
"Upper extremity assistance device" was invented by Michael Goldfarb (Nashville, Tenn.), Benjamin William Gasser (Nashville, Tenn.) and Daniel Alvin Bennett (Nashville, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, the orthotic device can include a powered hand portion, a switching element, and a controller. The wearer can interact with the switching element to generate input signals for adjusting an operation of the powered hand portion. The controller can receive the input signals and generate control signals to accordingly adjust the operat...