ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,487, issued on May 13, was assigned to Aescape Inc. (New York).
"Method and system for autonomous body interaction" was invented by Eric A. Litman (Brooklyn, N.Y.), David N. Walsh (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Charles Paul Pace (Manchester Center, Vt.) and Matthew DiCicco (Brooklyn, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and apparatus for autonomous body interaction system is provided. A system and method for a robot interacting with a human or other soft or deformable body is provided for the purpose of active application of pressure to specific points or regions of the body. The system and method conducts at least one of: locali...