US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, BOARD OF REGENTS, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Aug. 5 for "Cannula TCP actuator" (Texas, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,949, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas), BOARD OF REGENTS, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Cannula TCP actuator" was invented by Pawandeep Singh Matharu (Dallas), Yonas Tadesse (Garland, Texas), Yuyang Song (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Umesh Gandhi (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology disclosed herein provides a cannula TCP actuator comprising an annealed microtube assembly including a polymer microtube having inserted therein a resistive heating wire such that the resistive heating wir...