ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,480, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).
"Chemical actuators" was invented by Vishnu Baba Sundaresan (Columbus, Ohio), Robert Northcutt (Columbus, Ohio) and Parker Evans (Columbus, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are chemical actuators and ionic motive force transducers. The actuators and transducers are capable of converting an electrical stimulus into an ionic gradient within a reaction volume."
The patent was filed on Sept. 12, 2019, under Application No. 17/276,000.
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