US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha, The University of Texas at Dallas on Dec. 30 for "Hydrophobic twisted and coiled polymer actuators" (Michigan, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,062, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas), Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and The University of Texas at Dallas (Richardson, Texas).

"Hydrophobic twisted and coiled polymer actuators" was invented by Yuyang Song (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Umesh N. Gandhi (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Yonas Tadesse (Garland, Texas) and Pawandeep Singh Matharu (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuator includes a twisted and coiled polymer fishing line and an untwisted resistance heating wire (TCPFLRHW) actuator and a coating on the TCPFLHRW actuator. The coating includes a mix...