ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,830, issued on July 8, was assigned to Barrett Technology LLC (Newton, Mass.).

"Multi-active-axis, non-exoskeletal rehabilitation device" was invented by William T. Townsend (Weston, Mass.), David Wilkinson (Dedham, Mass.), Alexander Jenko (Somerville, Mass.), Julian Leland (Jamaica Plain, Mass.), Arvind Ananthanarayanan (Medford, Mass.), James Patton (Winnetka, Ill.), Claude Valle (Waltham, Mass.), Michael Morin (Boston), Donald Drumm (Billerica, Mass.), Amy Blank (Watertown, Mass.), Brian Zenowich (Wayland, Mass.) and Michael Schiess (Duxbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic device for operation in association with an...