ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,115, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to CAMBRIDGE MECHATRONICS Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Shape memory alloy actuation apparatus" was invented by Stephen Matthew Bunting (Cambridge, Great Britain), Andrew Benjamin Simpson Brown (Cambridge, Great Britain), Marc-Sebastian Scholz (Cambridge, Great Britain) and James Howarth (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Broadly speaking, the present techniques provide specific arrangements of shape memory alloy (SMA) actuator wires in SMA actuation apparatuses. In one arrangement, a single straight shape memory alloy actuator wire may be used, which may be inclined at a...