US Patent Issued to OZYEGIN UNIVERSITESI on Jan. 13 for "Wearable lower extremity exoskeleton" (Turkish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,298, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to OZYEGIN UNIVERSITESI (Istanbul).

"Wearable lower extremity exoskeleton" was invented by Mehmet Can Yildirim (Istanbul), Barkan Ugurlu (Istanbul), Polat Sendur (Istanbul), Sinan Emre (Istanbul), Mustafa Derman (Istanbul) and Sinan Coruk (Istanbul).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable lower extremity exoskeleton for regenerating a lower body motion functionality of paraplegic patients is provided. The wearable lower extremity exoskeleton has four active DOF and each DOF provided by an actuator disposed around a hip level and a back and/or a front of a user and provided by articulations."

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