ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,560, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Aescape Inc. (New York).

"Therapeutic content personalization" was invented by Nicholas Akiona (New York), Taya Quandt (New Canaan, Conn.), Andreas G. Hofmann (Cambridge, Mass.), Scott White (Alameda, Calif.), Kathleen Lockhart (Bow, N.H.) and Vikas Shivashankar (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic massage system includes a robotic arm that is actuated in order to execute a massage plan comprising a plurality of strokes. It further includes a communication interface that receives feedback from a user affecting the massage plan. It further includes a controller that receives st...