ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,244, issued on May 27, was assigned to Made For Movement Group AS (Skien, Norway).

"Assistive movement training apparatus for the disabled" was invented by Fredrik Gardsteig Blomberg (Skien, Norway), Christian Tuva-Stensland (Skien, Norway) and Andre Lindaas (Skien, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of medical devices. In particular, the present invention relates to an apparatus (10) for assisting the movement of a subject, such as a patient or disabled person, to train and strengthen the muscles of their body, said apparatus (10)."

The patent was filed on March 22, 2022, under Applicat...