On November 26, the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued a patent on the WristBot technology, the rehabilitation robot that the Human Sensorimotor Control Laboratory (HSCL) is jointly developing with international partners.

The patent protects the approach to use the WristBot robotic platform for the assessment and rehabilitation of wrist dysfunction. The patent inventors are School of Kinesiology professor and director of HSCL, Jürgen Konczak, PhD, Giulio Sandinin at the Italian Institute of Technology, Leonardo Capello at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa (Italy) and Lorenzo Masia, now at the University of Heidelberg in Germany.

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