ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,401, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Multimodal end-to-end learning for continuous control of exoskeletons for versatile activities" was invented by Shuzhen Luo (Raleigh, N.C.) and Hao Su (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples are provided related to continuous control of exoskeletons. In one example, a method includes obtaining IMU sensor signals associated with an exoskeleton attached to a limb of a subject; generating an exoskeleton control signal in response to the IMU sensor signals, the exoskeleton control signal generated by a control policy neural ...