US Patent Issued to The Texas A&M University System on April 1 for "Nanopositioning systems and associated methods" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,501, issued on April 1, was assigned to The Texas A&M University System (College Station, Texas).

"Nanopositioning systems and associated methods" was invented by ChaBum Lee (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nanoscale positioning system for positioning a positionable component includes a motion platform including a first end, a second end, a shuttle positioned between the first end and the second end and configured to support the positionable component, a flexure member, and a fluid passage extending through the flexure member from the first end to the second end of the motion platform, and a pressure controlle...