US Patent Issued to Fortify Technologies on July 8 for "Accelerometer-based gait analysis" (Philippine, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,035, issued on July 8, was assigned to Fortify Technologies LLC (Minneapolis).

"Accelerometer-based gait analysis" was invented by Gregory R. Romrell (Sandy, Utah), Vanilyn Jereza Gomez (Cebu, Philippines) and Mary Ann Antepuesto Lim (Cebu, Philippines).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of systems and methods determine one or more gait parameters using acceleration readings generated by an accelerometer coupled to a user. Gait parameters determined by various embodiments may include step length, step width, step time, single limb support time, or double limb support time. The accelerometer may be coupled to one of the user's a...