ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,113, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Aichi-ken, Japan).
"Assistive apparatus" was invented by Hideaki Nomura (Toyota, Japan), Ryu Takahashi (Toyota, Japan), Nobuyuki Nakane (Toyota, Japan) and Kuniyasu Nakane (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assistive apparatus includes a base, a first arm provided on the base and configured to revolve around a horizontal first center axis, a second arm provided on the first arm and configured to revolve around a horizontal second center axis, a support member provided on the second arm and configured to support an upper half body of an assisted person, and a driving d...