ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,914, issued on June 10, was assigned to Ekso Bionics Holdings Inc. (San Rafael, Calif.).
"Structural integration and enhanced control of functional electrical stimulation in an exoskeleton device" was invented by Spencer Murray (Aurora, Ohio), Don Truex (Murfreesboro, Tenn.), Michael Goldfarb (Franklin, Tenn.), Scott Morrison (Mount Pleasant, Mich.) and Ryan Farris (Mechanicsburg, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated functional electrical stimulation (FES) system includes a component of a mobility assistance device, and an FES system mounted within the component. The FES system includes an FES stimulator that is embedded ...