US Patent Issued to SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY on April 8 for "Lightweight hand exoskeleton force feedback apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,523, issued on April 8, was assigned to SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY (Jiangsu, China).

"Lightweight hand exoskeleton force feedback apparatus" was invented by Baoguo Xu (Suzhou, China), Qianqian Lu (Suzhou, China), Weifeng Peng (Suzhou, China) and Aiguo Song (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a lightweight hand exoskeleton force feedback apparatus, including a driver, a first rotating link, a second rotating link, a first linkage link, a second linkage link, a finger sleeve, and a pressure sensor fixing member; the driver is worn on a back of metacarpal bone of a human hand, the finger sleeve is fixed on an index fing...