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Competitive Advantages: Method of alleviating asymmetric gait experienced by transfemoral amputees Design allows for both rotational and translational motion Knee design mimics the human knee Inexpensive design Summary: Our inventors have come up with a passive knee locking mechanism that uses the position of the shank and the weight of the...

Published: 8/26/2023 | Inventor(s): Tyagi Ramakrishnan, Kyle Reed

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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Medical > Medical Devices

A Knee Orthosis with Variable Stiffness and Damping

Competitive Advantages Increase in velocity of walking More adjustable and precise Small and light weighted Summary In order to aid the individuals with asymmetric impairments in walking, USF inventors have developed a knee orthosis with variable damping and stiffness at the knee joint. This newly designed and fabricated orthosis...

Published: 2/5/2024 | Inventor(s): Kyle Reed, Seok Kim, Tyagi Ramakrishnan, Christina-Anne Lahiff

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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Medical, Technology Classifications > Medical > Medical Devices

Compliant and Articulating Prosthetic Ankle Foot

Competitive Advantages More accurately mimics human gait Provides wide range of ankle motion for amputees Easy to manufacture and affordable to produce Summary Our inventors have developed a novel solution to the common oversight associated with the prosthetics available on the market today. The CAPA is a prosthetic ankle foot that stores and...

Published: 6/7/2023 | Inventor(s): Millicent Schlafly, Tyagi Ramakrishnan, Kyle Reed

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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Medical, Technology Classifications > Medical > Medical Devices

Biomimetic Transfemoral Knee with Gear Mesh Locking Mechanism

Competitive Advantages Simple design Highly customizable Anatomically scalable Biomimetic kinematics Can be adapted for actuator control Can be used in Robotics Summary The invention is a biomimetic prosthetic knee which uses a passive locking mechanism with the same cross-linked four-bar mechanism that is used to represent the ACL and the...

Published: 6/8/2023 | Inventor(s): Tyagi Ramakrishnan, Kyle Reed

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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Medical > Surgery, Technology Classifications > Medical > Medical Devices, Technology Classifications > Medical