US Patent Issued to THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS on Nov. 25 for "Trunk exoskeleton" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,495, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (Washington).

"Trunk exoskeleton" was invented by Aidan Friederich (Cleveland Heights, Ohio), Ronald J. Triolo (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) and Musa Audu (Shaker Heights, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trunk exoskeleton is provided including a flexible corset configured to wrap around a user's torso in the lumbar spine region. The flexible corset includes a plurality of vertical pockets formed around its perimeter. A plurality of flexor columns are included, each of which positioned in one of the plurality of ...