ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,143, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Hippos Exoskeleton Inc. (Dover, Del.).
"Smart knee brace" was invented by Bhavy Metakar (Southend-on-Sea, Great Britain) and Jinglin Xiao (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a knee brace for preventing or mitigating injury to a user's knee. The knee brace includes a first sensor positioned with respect to a femur, and a second sensor positioned with respect to a tibia. The knee brace further includes a stiffening component configured to stabilize the user's knee, and a processor that receives sensor data from the first sensor and the second sensor to determine...