ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,661, issued on June 17, was assigned to Cionic Inc. (San Francisco).

"Machine-learned movement determination based on intent identification" was invented by Jeremiah Robison (San Francisco), Michael Dean Achelis (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Lina Avancini Colucci (Los Altos, Calif.), Sidney Rafael Primas (Los Altos, Calif.) and Andrew James Weitz (Bishop, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobility augmentation system monitors data representative of a user's motor intent and augments the user's mobility based on the monitored motor intent data. A machine-learned model is trained to identify an intended movement based on the monitored ...