US Patent Issued to HydroGraph Clean Power on Aug. 5 for "Actuator comprising electrically conductive porous material" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,948, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to HydroGraph Clean Power Inc. (Toronto).

"Actuator comprising electrically conductive porous material" was invented by Ranjith Divigalpitiya (London, Canada) and Jun Wang (London, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuator device comprises an enclosed volume region defined by a housing body and a movable surface, such that at least a portion of the enclosed volume region is expandable from an initial volume state to an enlarged volume state. An electrically conductive porous material is disposed in the enclosed volume region, wherein the electrically conductive porous material has a mass den...