US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America on Dec. 16 for "Appendage pressurization devices comprising artificial muscles" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,209, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Appendage pressurization devices comprising artificial muscles" was invented by Michael P. Rowe (Pinckney, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An appendage pressurization device includes an appendage strap and one or more artificial muscles disposed in the appendage strap and communicatively coupled to a controller. Each artificial muscle includes a housing comprising an electrode region and an expandable fluid region, a dielectric fluid housed within the housing, and an electrode pair positioned in the electrode regi...