ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,685, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to CAMBRIDGE MECHATRONICS Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"SMA actuator assembly" was invented by Andrew Benjamin Simpson Brown (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An SMA actuator assembly (2) comprising: first and second parts (4,6) that are movable relative to each other; and an SMA wire (10) arranged, on contraction, to drive relative movement of the first and second parts; and a heat transfer material (30) arranged between the first and second parts and around at least a portion of the SMA wire so as to transfer heat between the SMA wire and first and/or second parts, where...