US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College on Feb. 10 for "Reconfigurable electrically controlled shape morphing dielectric elastomer device" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,618, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Reconfigurable electrically controlled shape morphing dielectric elastomer device" was invented by David Clarke (Cambridge, Mass.) and Ehsan Hajiesmaili (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrically-controllable shape morphing device comprising a multi-layer structure including a plurality of elastomer layers and a plurality of electrode layers formed between the plurality of elastomer layers. A geometry and/or size of at least one electrode in a first layer of the plurality of electrode layers is different than a ...