ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,387, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).
"Upper-body robotic exoskeleton" was invented by Ashish Warren Deshpande (Austin, Texas) and Bongsu Kim (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic exoskeleton including a back portion providing at least two degrees of freedom, two shoulder portions, each shoulder portion providing at least five degrees of freedom, two elbow portions, each elbow portion providing at least one degree of freedom, and two forearm portions, each forearm portion providing at least one degree of freedom."
The patent was filed on Feb. 22, 2...