US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama on May 12 for "Device and method of fabrication for dexterous continuum tensegrity manipulator" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,340, issued on May 12, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Ala.).

"Device and method of fabrication for dexterous continuum tensegrity manipulator" was invented by Vishesh Vikas (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) and Cole Woods (Tuscaloosa, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A continuum manipulator that comprises an assembly of 'vertebra'-like modules fabricated using two curved links and twelve strings and actuated using Motor-Tendon Actuators. The modules being modeled as tensegrity structures having a polyhedron shape. The vertices and edges of the tensegrity structure polyhedron correspond to the holes...