US Patent Issued to Kai Concepts on June 17 for "Anisotropically flexible vibration isolating coupling mechanism" (American, Canadian, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,747, issued on June 17, was assigned to Kai Concepts LLC (Alameda, Calif.).

"Anisotropically flexible vibration isolating coupling mechanism" was invented by Donald Lewis Montague (Paia, Hawaii), Joseph Andrew Brock (Alameda, Calif.), Tomasz Pawel Bartczak (Toronto), Matthew Campbell Greaves (Corinda, Australia), Alec Korver (Monument, Colo.), Jamieson Edward Schulte (Alameda, Calif.) and Dmitri Stepanov (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible coupling mechanism may be used to suspend a structural component, such as a propulsion pod, from a support member, such as a strut of a hydrofoil watercraft. The flexible coupl...