US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on July 1 for "Portable systems and methods for ankle rehabilitation" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,136, issued on July 1, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Portable systems and methods for ankle rehabilitation" was invented by Sangeetha Madhavan (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and systems for improved rehabilitation of ankle motion by visually-driven priming of motor movement. The methods and systems include a sensor configured to measure ankle angle. The generated signal may be used to determine a maximal range of angles the user is capable of generating in order to calibrate the system. Subsequently, the signal from the sensor may b...