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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2022
Scalable microfluidic double-helix weave architecture for 3d-printable biomimetic artificial muscles
Applicant:
The United States of America, As Represented BY the Secretary of the Navy, Arlington, VA (US);
Inventor:
Emil Paskalev Kartalov, Pacific Grove, CA (US);
Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/74 (2006.01); A61F 2/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/741 (2021.08); A61F 2/74 (2021.08); A61F 2002/5066 (2013.01);
Abstract
A double-helix weave architecture for an artificial muscle is described. The artificial muscle includes a number of microfluidic channels that are arranged into artificial muscles fibers, where each artificial muscle fiber includes two independent mutually-unconnected microfluidic channels that are entwined in a double helix weave and maintained at opposite electrical polarity.