US Patent Issued to The University of Melbourne on July 8 for "Electromechanical robotic manipulandum device" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,215, issued on July 8, was assigned to The University of Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia).

"Electromechanical robotic manipulandum device" was invented by Denny Oetomo (Melbourne, Australia), Ying Tan (Melbourne, Australia), Justin Fong (Melbourne, Australia) and Vincent Crocher (Melbourne, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromechanical manipulandum device can include: a drive system having a plurality of electrical motors; an arm driveable by the drive system and having three degrees-of-freedom of motion; a capstan transmission for transmitting actuating force from the drive system to the arm; an end-effector coupled t...