US Patent Issued to Manus Robotics on Oct. 14 for "Methods and systems for muscle activity measurement and gesture detection" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,123, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Manus Robotics Inc. (Lexington, Mass.).

"Methods and systems for muscle activity measurement and gesture detection" was invented by Faye Y. Wu (Cambridge, Mass.), Haruhiko Harry Asada (Lincoln, Mass.), Baldin Adolfo Llorens-Bonilla (Cambridge, Mass.) and Sheng Liu (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for determining changes in muscle activity patterns based on the optical response of subcutaneous human body structures are presented, along with methods and systems for controlling assistive robotic systems based on the measured muscle activity patterns. Elements of...