ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,545, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Walking training system, control method thereof, and control program" was invented by Junichi Nagasue (Nagakute, Japan) and Takuma Nakamura (Nisshin, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The walking training device includes: a robot leg attached to one leg of a trainee; a treadmill; a load distribution sensor that detects a distribution of a load received from a sole of the trainee; and a walking state distinguishing unit that determines whether the one leg is in a swinging leg state; a control unit that performs a predetermined bending-extending control fo...