ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,088, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NHK SPRING Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Bending structural body" was invented by Takafumi Hirata (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuki Hotoda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuki Hayakawa (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention comprises: a first bending part and a second bending part which are capable of bending elastically; a connection part which connects the first bending part and the second bending part, and which has higher bending rigidity than the first bending part and the second bending part; and a plurality of first cord-like members which are attached to the first bending part...