US Patent Issued to FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA, I.N.A.I.L. ISTITUTO NAZIONALE PER L'ASSICURAZIONE CONTRO GLI INFORTUNISUL LAVORO on Dec. 2 for "Elastic balancing of loads in an exoskeleton" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,557, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA (Genoa, Italy) and I.N.A.I.L. ISTITUTO NAZIONALE PER L'ASSICURAZIONE CONTRO GLI INFORTUNISUL LAVORO (Rome).

"Elastic balancing of loads in an exoskeleton" was invented by Luca De Guglielmo (Genoa, Italy), Gianluca Capitta (Genoa, Italy), Matteo Laffranchi (Genoa, Italy) and Lorenzo De Michieli (Genoa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exoskeleton having a mechanism for elastically balancing loads applied to the exoskeleton is provided. The mechanism has a rigid connection element and a rigid housing mutually pivoted to one another about a first axi...