Patent ID: 11967247
Assignee: REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 6:
7. An apparatus for prosthetic training, comprising:
an arm band for training use of a prosthetic limb configured to be coupled to a residual limb of a user including:
a plurality of housing elements defining a housing,
one or more EMG sensors provided in at least one of the plurality of housing elements; and
one or more kinematic sensors;

one or more processing units in operable communication with the one or more EMG sensors of the arm band, the one or more processing units configured to:
receive EMG data of the residual limb from the one or more EMG sensors, predict an intended gesture of the user wearing the arm band for training use of the prosthetic limb from the EMG data; and
generate a gesture instruction in response to the user performing a training gesture; and

a virtual reality (VR) system including:
one or more detectors for motion tracking, configured to receive data from the one or more kinematic sensors to determine a position or orientation of the arm band relative to the VR system; and
a VR control module in operative communication with a VR display and the one or more processing units, said VR control module configured to prompt the user to perform the training gesture and generate instructions to control movement of a virtual reality limb displayed on the VR display based at least on the gesture instruction received from the one or more processing units.