ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,715, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to CAMBRIDGE MECHATRONICS Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Shape memory alloy actuator" was invented by Robin Eddington (Cambridge, Great Britain), James Howarth (Cambridge, Great Britain), Konstantinos Pantelidis (Cambridge, Great Britain), Stephen Matthew Bunting (Cambridge, Great Britain), Daniel John Burbridge (Cambridge, Great Britain), Oliver Hart (Cambridge, Great Britain), Joshua Carr (Cambridge, Great Britain), Peter Van Wyk (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Stephen Kindness (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shape memory alloy (SMA) actuator (100) for a camera assem...