US Patent Issued to Trustees of Tufts College on Oct. 6 for "Systems and methods for a remote control actuator" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,743, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for a remote control actuator" was invented by Fiorenzo G. Omenetto (Lexington, Mass.) and Meng Li (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to compositions and methods of making flexible composite materials that are capable of moving, on a micro- or macro-scale, in response to an applied magnetic field and localized heat from a heat source. The present disclosure further provides systems and methods of using the flexible composite material as an actuator for performing a mode of actuation. In on...