US Patent Issued to ETO MAGNETIC on July 22 for "Actuator device for actively reducing, damping and/or absorbing vibrations" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,280, issued on July 22, was assigned to ETO MAGNETIC GmbH (Stockach, Germany).

"Actuator device for actively reducing, damping and/or absorbing vibrations" was invented by Philipp Fangauer (Constance, Germany) and Peter Vincon (Stockach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuator device for active reduction, damping and/or absorption of vibrations, in particular of vibrations generated by an external device, includes at least one movably supported armature element and at least one permanent magnet, which is coupled with the armature element, in particular an outer side of the armature element, and which extends around the arm...