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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2013
Bionx Medical Technologies, Inc., Bedford, MA (US);
Zhixiu Han, Acton, MA (US);
Christopher Eric Barnhart, Carlisle, MA (US);
David Adams Garlow, Sanbornville, NH (US);
Adrienne Bolger, Cambridge, MA (US);
Hugh Miller Herr, Somerville, MA (US);
Gary Girzon, Sudbury, MA (US);
Richard J. Casler, Lowell, MA (US);
Jennifer T. McCarthy, Concord, MA (US);
Bionx Medical Technologies, Inc., Bedford, MA (US);
Abstract
In a communication system for controlling a powered human augmentation device, a parameter of the powered device is adjusted within a gait cycle by wirelessly transmitting a control signal thereto, whereby the adjusted parameter falls within a target range corresponding to that parameter. The target range is selected and the device parameters are controlled such that the powered device can normalize or augment human biomechanical function, responsive to a wearer's activity, regardless of speed and terrain and, in effect, provides at least a biomimetic response to the wearer of the powered device.