US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on April 21 for "Method and apparatus for making a soft robotic marine animal" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,286, issued on April 21, was assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Method and apparatus for making a soft robotic marine animal" was invented by Jennifer M. Nunes (Cabin John, Md.) and Christopher M. Nunes (Cabin John, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary inventive molding device includes two mold components characterized by matching rounded-star shapes. Each mold component includes eight congruent rounded-tip projections and eight congruent apertured sections separated from each other by the projections and describing a ring shape. The projections correspond ...