US Patent Issued to BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE on Jan. 27 for "Portable and wearable hand-grasp neuro-orthosis" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,504, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Columbus, Ohio).

"Portable and wearable hand-grasp neuro-orthosis" was invented by David Friedenberg (Worthington, Ohio), Gaurav Sharma (Columbus, Ohio), Samuel Colachis (Columbus, Ohio), Nicholas Annetta (Columbus, Ohio) and Amanda Noonan (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable and wearable hand-grasp neuro-orthosis is configured for use in a home environment to restore volitionally controlled grasp functions for a subject with a cervical spinal cord injury (SCI). The neuro-orthosis may include: a wearable sleeve with electrodes; electronics for o...