US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Nov. 18 for "Scalable microfluidic double-helix weave architecture for 3D-printable biomimetic artificial muscles" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,080, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Scalable microfluidic double-helix weave architecture for 3D-printable biomimetic artificial muscles" was invented by Emil Paskalev Kartalov (Pacific Grove, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A double-helix weave architecture for an artificial muscle is described. The artificial muscle includes a number of microfluidic channels that are arranged into artificial muscles fibers, where each artificial muscle fiber includes two independent mutually-unconnected microfluidic channels that...