US Patent Issued to Vanderbilt University on Feb. 24 for "System and method for providing biomechanically suitable running gait in powered lower limb devices" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,237, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.).

"System and method for providing biomechanically suitable running gait in powered lower limb devices" was invented by Michael Goldfarb (Franklin, Tenn.), Amanda Shultz (Old Hickory, Tenn.) and Brian Lawson (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a running controller for a lower limb device including at least a powered knee joint are provided. The method includes collecting real-time sensor information for the lower limb device and configuring the lower limb device to a first state in a finite state model for an activity ...