ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,898, issued on July 15, was assigned to SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Guangdong, China).

"Multimodal human-robot interaction system for compensation movement of hemiplegic upper limb" was invented by Longhan Xie (Guangdong, China), Siqi Cai (Guangdong, China), Shuangyuan Huang (Guangdong, China) and Guofeng Li (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multimodal human-robot interaction system for compensation movement of a hemiplegic upper limb includes a compensation monitoring module, a compensation evaluation module and a compensation reducing module. The compensation reducing module includes a robot and a virtual...