US Patent Issued to Vanderbilt University on Jan. 20 for "Wearable assistance devices and methods of operation" (Tennessee, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,678, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Wearable assistance devices and methods of operation" was invented by Karl Zelik (Nashville, Tenn.), Erik Lamers (Pittsburgh), Matthew Yandell (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) and Dustin Howser (Johnson City, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wearable assistance devices and methods of operating and using the same are provided. A wearable assistance device includes a first body interface and a second body interface. The assistance device also includes one or more elastic members operatively coupling the first body interface to the second body interface and exte...