ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,306, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to HOWA Co. LTD. (Kasugai, Japan).

"Sound absorber for motor vehicle and floor silencer for motor vehicle" was invented by Masahiko Yanagihara (Kasugai, Japan), Hiroshi Yamamoto (Kasugai, Japan) and Kosuke Ueda (Kasugai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each mixed main body of a plurality of mixed members is formed from a pulverized raw material of a steric shape, of a plurality of pulverized raw materials obtained by pulverizing a layered composite raw material into various shapes including the steric shape and a linear shape. Each mixed glass fiber portion of the plurality of mixed members i...