ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,507, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TAIWAN TEXTILE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (New Taipei, Taiwan).
"Upper extremity wearable device" was invented by Chieh Yin (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chien-Lung Shen (New Taipei, Taiwan), Szu-Yu Liao (New Taipei, Taiwan), Mei-Chuan Tseng (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chien-Fa Tang (New Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An upper extremity wearable device includes a pressure sleeve configure to wrap a forearm, a middle finger stimulating electrode and a ring finger stimulating electrode disposed on an inner surface of the pressure sleeve. The middle finger stimulating electrode covers a middle finger ...