ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,750, issued on May 27, was assigned to Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).
"Buckling dielectric elastomer actuator" was invented by Wei Ming Matthew Tan (Singapore), Gurunathan Thangavel (Singapore) and Pooi See Lee (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a buckling actuator, comprising: a first electrode; a second electrode; and a film of a dielectric elastomeric material having a first surface and a second surface sandwiched between the first and second electrodes, wherein the material is formed by the random block copolymerisation of a polymeric material comprising silicon or nitrogen atoms that has...