US Patent Issued to ZHEJIANG LAB on Nov. 11 for "Silk fibroin-based multi-responsive soft actuator, manufacturing method and regulation and control method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,437, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ZHEJIANG LAB (Zhejiang, China).

"Silk fibroin-based multi-responsive soft actuator, manufacturing method and regulation and control method" was invented by Jianliang Xiao (Zhejiang, China), Haitao Liu (Zhejiang, China), Lei Zhang (Zhejiang, China) and Shan Wang (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A silk fibroin-based multi-responsive soft actuator and a manufacturing method therefor are provided. The soft actuator includes a silk fibroin membrane and a flexible substrate, the silk fibroin membrane being arranged on and tightly bonded with the flexible substrate to form a double-laye...