US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on Sept. 30 for "Bending transducer as actuator, bending transducer as sensor, bending transducer system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,290, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Bending transducer as actuator, bending transducer as sensor, bending transducer system" was invented by Hermann Schenk (Dresden, Germany), Bert Kaiser (Dresden, Germany) and Lutz Ehrig (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bending transducer includes a deflectable element, a microelectromechanical transducer extending along a centroid fiber of the deflectable element deflecting the deflectable element in a first direction when a first electrical signal is applied, and a second microelectromechanical ...