US Patent Issued to University of Florida Research Foundation on Dec. 16 for "Sliding tendons for high-strain elastomer actuators" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,706, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Sliding tendons for high-strain elastomer actuators" was invented by Nicholas R. Sholl (Gainesville, Fla.) and Kamran Mohseni (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A soft structure fiber reinforcement and actuation technology is provided. In an example embodiment, the tendon-driven, fiber-reinforced elastomer membrane comprises an elastomer matrix material and a fiber array embedded within the elastomer matrix material. The one or more tendons are not mechanically bonded to the elastomer matrix material, such that ...