US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on Dec. 16 for "Biomechanical and physiological state estimation for task agnostic wearable robot control and human monitoring" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,246, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Biomechanical and physiological state estimation for task agnostic wearable robot control and human monitoring" was invented by Dean Molinaro (Atlanta), Aaron Young (Atlanta) and Keaton Scherpereel (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary task-agnostic exoskeleton control system and method are disclosed that are task-agnostic utilizing instantaneous estimates of biological joint moments from deep neural networks to assist the user movements. The exemplary control system employs multiple body sections and joints in-the-loop estimation to provide m...