ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,501, issued on March 3, was assigned to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, Mass.).
"Partial hand prosthesis" was invented by Marko B. Popovic (Somerville, Mass.), Andrew Strauss (Worcester, Mass.), Mia Buccowich (Worcester, Mass.) and Brian Fay (Worcester, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic device and approach for amputee remediation addresses partial or complete replacement of digits, and leverages the use of the remaining functional digits for directing operation of the prosthetic digits. A complete prosthetic digit replaces an amputated digit from actuated movement driven by an adjacent functional digit. A ...