US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on March 17 for "Soft variable impedance actuator using embedded jamming layer" (American, South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,968, issued on March 17, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Soft variable impedance actuator using embedded jamming layer" was invented by Brian H. Do (Plant City, Fla.), Inrak Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Sean Weston Follmer (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variable impedance actuator is provided with a bladder-style actuator having a first end and a second end, and a jamming brake located inside the bladder-style actuator and connected to the first end and the second end of the bladder-style actuator. The bladder-style actuator and the jamming bra...