ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,413, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to GOODRICH ACTUATION SYSTEMS Ltd. (Wolverhampton, Great Britain).
"Actuators" was invented by Jack William Timms (Wolverhampton, Great Britain), Neil Stuart Whitfield (Shifnal, Great Britain) and Jonathan Alan Darby (Newcastle, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuator includes an input shaft, a wave generator, a pair of flex splines, a pair of earth annuli, and an output annulus. Each of the pair of flex splines are earthed to an earth annulus. The output annulus comprises a circular spline. The wave generator is configured to be activated by rotation of the input shaft, and the w...