ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,416, issued on July 7, was assigned to Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).
"Magnetic miniature robots" was invented by Guo Zhan Lum (Singapore), Changyu Xu (Singapore) and Zilin Yang (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a magnetic miniature robot includes: rotationally deforming a segment of material about a rotational deformation axis, from an initial shape to a deformed shape, the material including a plurality of magnetic particles distributed in an elastic matrix; magnetizing the plurality of magnetic particles in the segment to form a magnetized segment in a magnetization process, in the magnetiz...