ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,886, issued on May 13, was assigned to General Electric Renovables Espana S.L. (Barcelona, Spain).
"Oscillation damping" was invented by Noah Liebman (Greenville, S.C.), Pascal Brunet (Nantes, France), Laura Ramirez (Barcelona, Spain), Anthony Denis Rousset (Saint-Sebastien-sur-Loire, France) and Laure Pichard (Nantes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a damping system for counteracting oscillations in a construction. The damping system comprises a pendulum device and a container which contains a viscous medium. The pendulum device comprises a mass which comprises a porous structure. The porous s...