US Patent Issued to ILLUMINA on Sept. 22 for "Actuation systems and methods" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,442, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to ILLUMINA INC. (San Diego).

"Actuation systems and methods" was invented by Beng Keong Ang (Singapore), Heng Kuang Cheng (Singapore), Boon Kheng Lim (Singapore), Jian Kai Tan (Singapore), Ai Wee Lee (Singapore) and Jia Zhi Lim (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Actuation systems and methods are disclosed. An apparatus includes a housing, a printed circuit board, and a plurality of shape memory alloy actuators. The printed circuit board is coupled to the housing. Each shape memory alloy actuator has a pair of wire mounts, an actuator rod, a shape memory alloy wire, and a latch assembly. ...