ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,823, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Wearable muscle tissue tensiometer with bilateral work and power measurement" was invented by Darryl Gerard Thelen (Madison, Wis.), Jack Anthony Martin (Madison, Wis.), Sara Elizabeth Harper (Madison, Wis.), Peter Gabriel Adamczyk (Madison, Wis.) and Kelly Peregrine (Traverse City, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable tensiometer integrates patient-worn muscle tissue tensiometery and motion tracking to enable real-time energy measurement for an individual's full gait cycle outside of a laboratory environment."

The patent was fil...