US Patent Issued to HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 21 for "Passive exoskeleton based on energy flow characteristics of foot-ankle complex" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,603, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Hubei, China).

"Passive exoskeleton based on energy flow characteristics of foot-ankle complex" was invented by Cai-Hua Xiong (Hubei, China), Tao Wang (Hubei, China), Di Hu (Hubei, China), Jie jun yi Liang (Hubei, China), Yuhao Li (Hubei, China), Tian-Cheng Zhou (Hubei, China) and Wen-Bin Chen (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passive exoskeleton based on energy flow characteristics of a foot-ankle complex includes a first passive exoskeleton. The first passive exoskeleton includes an energy distribution mechanism, a strike-recipient m...