US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA on July 15 for "Artificial muscle assemblies including a central artificial muscle and a plurality of initiating actuators" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,684, issued on July 15, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Artificial muscle assemblies including a central artificial muscle and a plurality of initiating actuators" was invented by Michael P. Rowe (Pinckney, Mich.), Shardul S. Panwar (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Maduran Palaniswamy (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An artificial muscle assembly includes initiating actuators and an artificial muscle. The artificial muscle includes a housing including an electrode region and an expandable fluid region, and an electrode pair positioned in the electrode region. The elec...