US Patent Issued to The Chinese University of Hong Kong on Sept. 16 for "Smart knee joint for a human lower limb exoskeleton, a prosthesis and an orthosis" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,866, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong).

"Smart knee joint for a human lower limb exoskeleton, a prosthesis and an orthosis" was invented by Wei-Hsin Liao (Hong Kong) and Fei Gao (Neijiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a smart knee joint for a human lower limb exoskeleton, a prosthesis, and an orthosis. The smart knee joint reproduces part or all of the biomechanics of the knee joint of the human body by using a motor driving unit and a controllable elastic energy storage unit based on a magnetorheological damper. The motor driving unit here ...