US Patent Issued to The Curators of the University of Missouri on March 11 for "Mobile robot configured to determine human arm stiffness during overground interaction" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,435, issued on March 11, was assigned to The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Mo.).

"Mobile robot configured to determine human arm stiffness during overground interaction" was invented by Sambad Regmi (Rolla, Mo.) and Yun Seong Song (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile robot system and method for determining the stiffness of a human arm while moving with a user during overground interaction as the user holds the robot's handle and exchanges forces with it. A mobile base moves with the user, a robot arm interacts with the user, and a controller determines the stiffness. The robot arm includes servomoto...