ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,807, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for evaluating force control ability of upper limb and prosthesis" was invented by Song Joo Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Sang Rok Oh (Seoul, South Korea) and Sangsoo Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The apparatus for evaluating force control ability according to an embodiment includes: a display unit configured to display a target force direction; a measuring unit configured to measure a direction and magnitude of a force applied by a user; and a processing unit configured to evaluate for...