US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 7 for "Knee brace and leg brace" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,777, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Knee brace and leg brace" was invented by Eisuke Aoki (Toyota, Japan), Tadashi Odashima (Toyota, Japan) and Takahiro Takeda (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shank outer link moves away from a thigh outer link in the longitudinal direction of the shank outer link and the shank outer link is drawn forward in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the shank outer link relative to the thigh outer link as a knee joint of a user is extended. A shank inner link moves away from a thigh inner link in the longitudinal direction of the...