ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,530, issued on March 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Power transmitting device, motion assistance apparatus, and method of controlling the motion assistance apparatus" was invented by Jongwon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youn Baek Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Se-Gon Roh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jeonghun Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Minhyung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byungjune Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jungyun Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyun Do Choi (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a power transmitting device including an input side gear assem...