US Patent Issued to NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY on July 29 for "Exoskeleton robotic equipment for tenodesis grasp and release training" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,117, issued on July 29, was assigned to NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY (Tainan, Taiwan).

"Exoskeleton robotic equipment for tenodesis grasp and release training" was invented by Hsiu-Yun Hsu (Tainan, Taiwan), Chien-Hsien Yeh (Tainan, Taiwan), Kang-Chin Yang (Taipei, Taiwan), Ping-Han Chuang (Tainan, Taiwan), Fong-Chin Su (Tainan, Taiwan) and Li-Chieh Kuo (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exoskeleton robotic equipment for tenodesis grasp and release training includes an exoskeleton mechanism and a control device. The exoskeleton mechanism includes a fixing seat worn on a forearm, an actuator device mounted to the fixin...