US Patent Issued to PHYSIK INSTRUMENTE (PI) on July 22 for "Stacked actuator comprising longitudinal and shear actuator sections" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,394, issued on July 22, was assigned to PHYSIK INSTRUMENTE (PI) GMBH & Co. KG (Karlsruhe, Germany).

"Stacked actuator comprising longitudinal and shear actuator sections" was invented by Burhanettin Koc (Ettlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuator in the form of a stack is described, wherein the stack includes multiple first pairs of layers of a polarized electromechanical material and multiple second pairs of layers of a polarized electromechanical material, and the first and second pairs of layers are disposed, one behind the other, wherein at each pair of layers on each of its terminal surfaces electrically condu...