ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,007, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Suncall Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Gait motion assisting apparatus" was invented by Rei Takahashi (Kyoto, Japan), Yukinobu Makihara (Tokyo), Yuichi Sawada (Kyoto, Japan), Yoshiyuki Higashi (Kyoto, Japan) and Koji Ohata (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gait motion assisting apparatus is provided, in which a thigh phase angle calculating unit has a latest data transmission process to transmit a thigh phase angle Phi(k) at sampling timing S(k) (k is an integer of 1 or more) to a gait motion timing calculating unit and store the same as a reference thigh phase angle Phic. Also, a stored dat...