US Patent Issued to University of Utah Research Foundation on Oct. 7 for "Powered prosthesis with torque-sensitive actuation" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,771, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City).

"Powered prosthesis with torque-sensitive actuation" was invented by Tommaso Lenzi (Salt Lake City), Lukas R. Gabert (Salt Lake City) and Brendon M. Ortolano (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powered prosthesis device includes an artificial joint body, pivotal about a joint axis, an input motor, and a transmission, operable to transfer force from the input motor to the artificial joint body. The transmission includes a crank, pivotally coupled to the artificial joint body about a crank axle rotatable about a crank axis. The i...