US Patent Issued to Lifeward on Aug. 19 for "Apparatus and systems for controlled collapse of an exoskeleton" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,390, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Lifeward Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Apparatus and systems for controlled collapse of an exoskeleton" was invented by Amit Goffer (Kiryat Tivon, Israel), Saman Naser (Tira, Israel) and Roman Rabkin (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiment including an apparatus, method and system for collapsing/lowering an exoskeleton device include at least one motor and at least one component. In some embodiments, the device is configured to be moved by the at least one motor. When at least one of a plurality of faults including power faults such as a low power fault and a power failure fault, el...