US Patent Issued to Vanderbilt University on July 21 for "Clutch mechanisms and uses of the same" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,112, issued on July 21, was assigned to Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Clutch mechanisms and uses of the same" was invented by Karl E. Zelik (Nashville, Tenn.), Michael Goldfarb (Nashville, Tenn.), Paul R. Slaughter (Nashville, Tenn.), Shane T. King (Nashville, Tenn.), Cameron A. Nurse (Nashville, Tenn.) and Chad C. Ice (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clutch mechanism includes a spool that is configured to receive a cable, a disk with elasticity, a mechanism configured for locking and unlocking the movement of the disk, and at least one sensor. The at least one sensor being configured to measure the mov...