ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,815, issued on March 18.
"Intelligent flexible biomimetic facial-expression robot" was invented by Quansheng Wang (Guangdong, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intelligent flexible biomimetic facial-expression robot is provided and includes a model head, a skeleton, a drive means, and an epidermal layer. The skeleton defines two first slide slots and two first notches. The drive means includes a mounting bracket, an eyebrow drive module, and an eyelid drive module. The eyebrow drive module includes a first drive source, a first crank, and a first rocker. The eyelid drive module includes a second rocker. The epidermal layer def...