US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Michigan on March 25 for "Method of manufacture and assembly of XY flexure mechanism assembly" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,263, issued on March 25, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Method of manufacture and assembly of XY flexure mechanism assembly" was invented by Shorya Awtar (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Kwun Sing Roger Ho (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Siddharth Rath (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing and assembling a sandwich flexure mechanism assembly is set forth herein. The method involves manufacture of a monolithic sandwich flexure module having a multitude of out of plane rigid inter-stage connections between at least some sets of twin stages of the monolithic sandwich flexur...