ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,923, issued on June 3, was assigned to IUVO S.R.L. (Pontedera, Italy).
"System for assisting an operator in exerting efforts" was invented by Matteo Moise (Ponte Buggianese, Italy), Luca Morelli (Leghorn, Italy), Francesco Giovacchini (Pisa, Italy), Nicola Vitiello (Pontedera, Italy) and Giuseppe Colombina (Nova Milanese, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for assisting an operator in exerting efforts comprises a garment that can be worn by the operator, which is to engage, when worn, the mutually mobile parts of a joint of the operator. The system defines at least one axis of rotation that is to assume a position correspon...