ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,782, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to CAMBRIDGE MECHATRONICS Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Actuator assembly" was invented by Andrew Benjamin Simpson Brown (Cambridge, Great Britain), Stephen Matthew Bunting (Cambridge, Great Britain), Robin Eddington (Cambridge, Great Britain), Oliver Hart (Cambridge, Great Britain) and James Howarth (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuator assembly comprising: a support structure comprising a first friction surface; a movable part comprising a second friction surface engaging the first friction surface; one or more SMA wires arranged, on contraction, to move the m...