US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 3 for "Walking assistance method and apparatuses performing the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,344, issued on June 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Walking assistance method and apparatuses performing the same" was invented by Bokman Lim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Kyung-Rock Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Youngbo Shim (Seoul, South Korea), Jusuk Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jun-Won Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A walking assistance method may include receiving at least one abnormal gait type selected from a plurality of abnormal gait types, and differently controlling a walking assistance apparatus based on the at least one abnormal gait type."

The patent was...