ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,572, issued on March 31, was assigned to CAMBRIDGE MECHATRONICS Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Actuator" was invented by Andrew Benjamin Simpson Brown (Cambridge, Great Britain), James Howarth (Cambridge, Great Britain), Robert Langhorne (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Rene Kist (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shape memory alloy (SMA) actuator comprising: a support structure (10); a moveable part (20) movable relative to the support structure; plural SMA components (30) connecting the support structure and the movable part, the SMA components are operable to controllably change the position and/or orient...