US Patent Issued to The University of Hong Kong on March 4 for "Pneumatic and cable-driven hybrid artificial muscle" (Chinese, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,487, issued on March 4, was assigned to The University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"Pneumatic and cable-driven hybrid artificial muscle" was invented by Yong Hu (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Xiao Dong Li (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), De Hao Duan Mu (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Xiao Jun Wang (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Xiang Cao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention discloses a pneumatic and cable-driven hybrid artificial muscle, comprising pneumatic actuator, pneumatic pressure regulating assembly, and cable drive assembly. The pneumatic pressure regulating assembly is connected to the pneumatic actuator to regulate a...