US Patent Issued to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System on Nov. 18 for "Thermally-powered polymer fiber actuators and articles including same" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,896, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Thermally-powered polymer fiber actuators and articles including same" was invented by Na Li (Richardson, Texas), Carter S. Haines (Murphy, Texas), Marcio D. Lima (Richardson, Texas), Monica Jung DeAndrade (Richardson, Texas), Shaoli Fang (Richardson, Texas), Jiyoung Oh (Richardson, Texas), Mikhail E. Kozlov (Dallas), Dongseok Suh (Plano, Texas) and Ray H. Baughman (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Actuators (artificial muscles) comprising twisted polymer fibers generate actuation when powered thermally. In some embodiments...