US Patent Issued to Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago on April 15 for "Systems and methods for electromyogram-based control using neural networks" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,272, issued on April 15, was assigned to Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (Chicago).

"Systems and methods for electromyogram-based control using neural networks" was invented by Ronald James Cotton (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An EMG-based control system is disclosed. The system includes an EMG sensor that streams data to a device. A neural network executed by the device decodes muscle activity into a two-dimensional continuous control signal. A network-based calibration routine optimizes the neural network to decode natural movements of the user."

The patent was filed on Oct. 16, 2020, under Application No. 17/769,394....