In this final IP report, patent searches, assessment and discussion are described, covering the 3 major research areas of the project: stimuli-responsive "smart" gels soft magnetic actuators with programmable, anistoropic mangetic properties fluidic actuators with worm-like eversion For each of the defined Key Exploitable Results, the most relevant patents are reported and their impact on the project are discussed.
Lorenz et al. (Sat,) studied this question.