US Patent Issued to Ohio State Innovation Foundation on March 17 for "Microrobots with distributed actuation" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,240, issued on March 17, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).

"Microrobots with distributed actuation" was invented by Renee Zhao (Columbus, Ohio), Shuai Wu (Columbus, Ohio) and Qiji Ze (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are unit cells including a base plate; a top plate; and a lumen extending longitudinally from the base plate to the top plate, the lumen defined by a side wall formed from a plurality of cojoined panels extending between a bottom surface of the top plate and a top surface of the base plate. The unit cell can be magnetically actuatable, such that the unit cel...