Intellectual property disclosures, such as patent applicationsPatent application and patentsPatent, enable a more refined presentation with respect to the state of the art for powered prosthetic applications and their supporting concepts. An advantage of these disclosures is the thoroughness of proposed inventions by contrast to the inherently limited description provided by the available research literature. The anatomy of a patent applicationPatent application and patentPatent is comprised of a summary abstractPatentAbstract, specificationPatentSpecification that extensively clarifies the intellectual property disclosure in combination with a series of drawingsPatentDrawings, and associated claimsPatentClaims that define the boundaries of the invention. The patent examination processPatent examination process is characteristically iterative, for which the patent applicationPatent application may be incrementally modified in terms of the claims to establish uniqueness in contrast to prior art ascertained by the assigned patent examinerPatent examiner. There are multiple patent search techniquesPatent searchPatent search technique to acquire a perspective of the state of the art that are addressed. An assortment of advanced powered prosthetics and supporting capabilities are extensively reviewed.