ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,189, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to CAMBRIDGE MECHATRONICS Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Resonant actuator assembly" was invented by Joshua Carr (Cambridge, Great Britain), Andrew Benjamin Simpson Brown (Cambridge, Great Britain) and James Howarth (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resonant actuator assembly (1) comprising: a support structure (3); a movable part (5) that is capable of relative motion with respect to the support structure; and an actuator arrangement (7) arranged to drive relative motion of the movable part, the resonant actuator assembly being arranged to provide a restoring force t...