US Patent Issued to Otto Bock Healthcare Products on Dec. 9 for "Method for controlling at least one actuator of an orthopedic device, and orthopedic device" (Austrian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,278, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Otto Bock Healthcare Products GmbH (Vienna).

"Method for controlling at least one actuator of an orthopedic device, and orthopedic device" was invented by Dirk Seifert (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for controlling at least one actuator (4) of an orthopedic device (2) with an electronic control device (E), which is coupled to the actuator (4) and at least one sensor (8) and which has an electronic processor (MuC) for processing sensor data (s), wherein at least one state machine (SM) in which states (z) of the orthopedic device (2) and state transitions o...