US Patent Issued to The University of Utah Research Foundation on Jan. 20 for "Unified controller for a powered knee prosthesis" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,673, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to The University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City).

"Unified controller for a powered knee prosthesis" was invented by Tommaso Lenzi (Salt Lake City), Lukas R. Gabert (Salt Lake City), Liam Sullivan (Salt Lake City) and Marissa Ann Cowan (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are prosthetic systems comprising a powered knee prosthesis and a volitional controller configured to provide control of the prosthesis to the user. The prosthetic system may be configured to enable a user to walk on smooth and/or uneven terrain and to ascend and/or descend stairs. The volitional...