US Patent Issued to Temple University-Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education on Jan. 28 for "System and method for assessment and rehabilitation of balance impairment using virtual reality" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,207,934, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Temple University-Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Philadelphia).

"System and method for assessment and rehabilitation of balance impairment using virtual reality" was invented by William Geoffrey Wright (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of assessing the balance impairment of a subject includes the steps of presenting the subject with a static scene on a display, collecting a first set of orientation measurements, presenting the subject with an unstable scene on a display, collecting a second set of orientation measurements, storing the first and second sets o...