Professor Jürgen Konczak, PhD, director of the Human Sensorimotor Control Laboratory, together with colleagues from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and Nanyang Technological University of Singapore has been named inventor for an international patent application that was filed by the University and its international partners in Italy and Singapore. The patent concerns a robotic device intended for the physical rehabilitation of wrist and hand function. Clinical trials to show the efficacy of the device are currently conducted here at the University of Minnesota and two rehabilitation hospitals in Italy.