US Patent Issued to EXONETIK on Feb. 25 for "Low-impedance actuation device using magnetorheological fluid clutch apparatuses" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,900, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to EXONETIK INC. (Sherbrooke, Canada).

"Low-impedance actuation device using magnetorheological fluid clutch apparatuses" was invented by Jean-Sebastien Plante (Sherbrooke, Canada), Jean-Philippe Lucking Bigue (Sherbrooke, Canada), Catherine Veronneau (Waterville, Canada) and Pascal Larose (Sherbrooke, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetorheological (MR) actuator device comprising two or more MR actuator units. Each of the MR actuator units may include a motor, an MR fluid clutch apparatus operatively coupled to the motor to receive torque from the motor, the MR fluid clutch apparatus o...