ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,761, issued on July 1, was assigned to General Vibration Corp. (San Francisco).
"Systems and methods for producing a pure vibration force from a synchronized dual array of eccentric rotating masses" was invented by Michael G. Snow (Erie, Colo.), Nikhil Bajaj (West Lafayette, Ind.) and John Houston (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the technology employ components to control and combine the vibration outputs of two vibration motors into essentially a pure vibration force, which can be controlled to output a given frequency and amplitude, produce beat frequencies, and produce brief impulses. For instance, identica...