US Patent Issued to SOCIETE DE COMMERCIALISATION DES PRODUITS DE LA RECHERCHE APPLIQUEE SOCPRA SCIENCES ET GENIE on April 29 for "System for simulating cervical spine motions" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,477, issued on April 29, was assigned to SOCIETE DE COMMERCIALISATION DES PRODUITS DE LA RECHERCHE APPLIQUEE SOCPRA SCIENCES ET GENIE S.E.C. (Sherbrooke, Canada).

"System for simulating cervical spine motions" was invented by Patrick Boissy (Sherbrooke, Canada), Mathieu Hamel (Magog, Canada), Francois Cabana (Saint-Denis-de-Brompton, Canada) and Karina Lebel (Sherbrooke, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neck mechanism for a mannequin comprises three or more joint units serially connected to provide joints for three or more rotational degrees of freedom (DOF). A rotational axis of a first DOF is configured to be aligned with a l...