B25J 9/1085
Positioning by means of shape-memory materials
Official title: {positioning by means of shape-memory materials (shape memory actuators F03G7/06)}
B25J9/1085 (Positioning by means of shape-memory materials) appears on 64 US grants and 51 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B25J- Granted patents
- 64
- Published applications
- 51
- Assignees
- 61
- Inventors
- 184
- Latest grant
- 16 Jun 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Shape-memory effector assemblies16 Jun 2026US 12,654,340 B2Zebra Technologies Corporation
- Soft robotics, autonomous, space inspection, crawling robot17 Mar 2026US 12,576,543 B2University of Southern California
- Compact actuators, electrically programmable microscale surface oxide memory actuators and related robotic devices30 Dec 2025US 12,508,702 B2Cornell University
- Insertion tool23 Dec 2025US 12,504,616 B2General Electric Company
- Soft actuator having cooler, wearable robot having the same, massage device having the same, and method for controlling the same9 Dec 2025US 12,491,626 B2Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials
- Tensegrity robot with shape memory alloys springs and related methods6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225226 A1
- Dynamic mechanical skin structures for animatronic figures6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225255 A1Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Hybrid approach to perform dynamic projection mapping onto robotic figures in real-time6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225256 A1Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Hybrid approach to perform dynamic projection mapping onto robotic figures in real-time6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225257 A1Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Skin embedded markers for dynamic projection mapping of animatronic figures6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225258 A1Disney Enterprises, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Robotic arm systems174US 4,954,952 ATRW Inc. · 1990
- Flexidigit robotic manipulator102US 4,848,179 ATRW Inc. · 1989
- Rapid shape memory effect micro-actuators91US 5,309,717 A1994
- Electrically activated multi-jointed manipulator82US 5,556,370 AThe Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · 1996
- Expandable and contractable arms78US 4,712,969 AKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · 1987