US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on June 3 for "Prosthesis simulator devices and methods" (Georgia, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,298, issued on June 3, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Prosthesis simulator devices and methods" was invented by Bennett Leonard Alterman (Atlanta), William D. Hendrix (Lexington, Ky.), John T. Johnson (Atlanta), Perry J. Lee (Marietta, Ga.) and Lewis A. Wheaton (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Prosthesis simulator devices including a first restraint configured to restrain one or more fingers of a wearer of the simulator, a second restraint configured to restrain a thumb of the wearer, and a plurality of artificial digits configured to move in a manner to simulate one or more prosthetic fingers and a pro...