ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,654, issued on July 15, was assigned to CAMBRIDGE MECHATRONICS Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Actuator assemblies" was invented by Jason Tun (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Andrew Benjamin Simpson Brown (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Actuator assemblies and methods of operating actuator assemblies are provided, in particular with the aim of reducing bearing jitter. In one approach an actuator assembly (1) is provided which has: a support element (4); a movable element (20) movable relative to the support element; an SMA component (80) connected between the movable element and the support element and arrang...