US Patent Issued to NEC on Jan. 28 for "Load reduction device, load reduction method, and storage medium storing program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,054, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Load reduction device, load reduction method, and storage medium storing program" was invented by Tadashi Ookoba (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load reduction device includes a determination unit configured to determine a repeated motion that is repeated by a user; and a torque control unit configured to control, by comparing a characteristic extracted on the basis of machine learning for repeated motions and a reference model, torque output by a drive mechanism to reduce a load on the user at a joint of a leg of the user."

The patent was filed on Nov. 14, 2019, un...