US Patent Issued to WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY on Dec. 30 for "Systems and methods for approximating musculoskeletal dynamics" (West Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,138, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY (Morgantown, W.va.).

"Systems and methods for approximating musculoskeletal dynamics" was invented by Anton Sobinov (Morgantown, W.va.), Sergiy Yakovenko (Morgantown, W.va.), Valeriya Gritsenko (Morgantown, W.va.) and Matthew Boots (Morgantown, W.va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for controlling a device, such as a prosthetic limb are provided. A biomimetic controller of the system comprises a signal processor and a musculoskeletal model. The signal processor processes M biological signals received from a residual limb to transform the M biological ...