US Patent Issued to CAMBRIDGE MECHATRONICS on Sept. 15 for "SMA actuator assembly" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,032, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to CAMBRIDGE MECHATRONICS Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"SMA actuator assembly" was invented by Nicolas Heijne (Cambridge, Great Britain), Andrew Benjamin Simpson Brown (Cambridge, Great Britain), James Howarth (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Adam South (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shape memory alloy (SMA) actuator assembly (1) comprising: a movable part (100); a support structure (3); one or more SMA wires arranged, on contraction, to tilt the movable part relative to the support structure about two orthogonal axes that are perpendicular to a primary axis (O) of ...