US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University on Oct. 7 for "Electromagnetically actuated soft robotic devices and methods for their fabrication" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,381, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Electromagnetically actuated soft robotic devices and methods for their fabrication" was invented by Hamidreza Marvi (Chandler, Ariz.), Elizabeth Skowronek (Tempe, Ariz.), Reza James Ahmed (Tempe, Ariz.) and Mahdi Ilami (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromagnetically actuated robotic device comprises electromagnetic coils, a charge storage element, at least one processor, a plurality of electrically conductive paths, optionally in combination with sensor(s), all arranged in, and/or on, an elas...