US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on April 21 for "Self-transformable actuator and display device using same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,171, issued on April 21, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Self-transformable actuator and display device using same" was invented by Jaewon Oh (Seoul, South Korea), Sangsoo Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Haknyun Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuator according to one aspect of the present invention includes a first member in which a shape is transformed from a first position, which is either rolled or flat, to a second position different from the first position, and a restoring force is stored when the shape is transformed from the first position to the second position, and a seco...