ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,113, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to CAMBRIDGE MECHATRONICS Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"SMA actuator assembly" was invented by James Howarth (Cambridge, Great Britain), Andrew Benjamin Simpson Brown (Cambridge, Great Britain), Rene Kist (Cambridge, Great Britain), Stephen Matthew Bunting (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Alexander Doust (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An SMA actuator assembly (1a) for driving or rotating a movable part (20) in a predetermined direction or sense by a plurality of repeated incremental steps is provided. The SMA actuator assembly comprises the movable part; a first engagem...