ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,071, issued on July 29, was assigned to CAMBRIDGE MECHATRONICS Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"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 actuator assembly comprising a support structure; a movable part that is movable relative to the support structure in at least two degrees of freedom; an arrangement of superelastic SMA elements arranged, on actuation, to move the movable part in the at least two degrees of freedom relative to the support structure, wherein the hysteretic properties of the superelastic SMA elements are configured to hold the movable...