ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,640, issued on July 22, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) and Harmonic Bionics Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Upper body human to machine interface" was invented by Rohit John Varghese (Austin, Texas) and William Wu (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment includes an apparatus for coupling a user to a robot to provide robot-assisted physical therapy to the user. Other embodiments are described herein."

The patent was filed on April 14, 2021, under Application No. 17/230,154.

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