US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Michigan on Aug. 25 for "Out of plane inter-stage connection in flexure mechanisms" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,449, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Out of plane inter-stage connection in flexure mechanisms" was invented by Siddharth Rath (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Shorya Awtar (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multitude of flexure mechanism designs are set forth herein that furnish enhanced stiffness properties. The flexure mechanism designs can have various stages including ground stages, motion stages, flexure stages, and reinforcement stages, among other possible stages depending on the construction of the flexure mechanism designs. It has been determined that s...