ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,977, issued on April 22, was assigned to Touch Bionics Ltd. (Livingston, Great Britain).
"Energy conservation of a motor-driven digit" was invented by Steven Byrne (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Neil Alexander Shaw (Livingston, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Routines and methods disclosed herein can increase a power efficiency of a prosthetic hand without drastically reducing the speed at which it operates. A prosthesis can implement an acceleration profile, which can reduce an energy consumption of a motor, or an amount of electrical and/or mechanical noise produced by a motor, as the motor transitions from an idle stat...