ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,170, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to CAMBRIDGE MECHATRONICS Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Actuator assembly" was invented by Robert Langhorne (Cambridge, Great Britain), Robin Eddington (Cambridge, Great Britain), James Howarth (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Andrew Benjamin Simpson Brown (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shape memory alloy (SMA) actuator assembly comprising: a support structure (211); a moveable part (213) moveable relative to the support structure; at least one SMA wire (202) having a first portion and a second portion respectively attached to the support structure and the moveable pa...