US Patent Issued to University of Utah Research Foundation on Feb. 17 for "Magnetic cogging parallel-elastic actuator" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,080, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City).

"Magnetic cogging parallel-elastic actuator" was invented by Jake J. Abbott (Salt Lake City), Shad Roundy (Salt Lake City) and Jacob Aman (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic cogging parallel-elastic actuator (100) can include a motor (102) having an output shaft (104). The actuator (100) can further include a cogging-torque element (106). The cogging-torque element (106) can include a stator that is stationary relative to the motor (102) and a rotor that is rotatable relative to the stator and comprises an output sha...