ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,708, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CAMBRIDGE MECHATRONICS Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"SMA actuation apparatus" was invented by Andrew Benjamin Simpson Brown (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An SMA actuation apparatus (1) comprising: a plurality of SMA wires (71-78) arranged, on contraction, to (a) tilt a movable part (100) relative to a support structure (3) about a first axis (x) and (b) translationally move the movable part relative to the support structure perpendicular to a primary axis (P); and a control circuit electrically connected to the SMA wires for supplying drive signals thereto, and conf...