US Patent Issued to Ohio State Innovation Foundation on Dec. 16 for "Device and method for controlling vibration with piecewise-linear nonlinearity" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,011, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).

"Device and method for controlling vibration with piecewise-linear nonlinearity" was invented by Kiran D'Souza (Dublin, Ohio) and Meng-Hsuan Tien (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations include a device for controlling vibration with piecewise-linear nonlinearity. The device includes a stiffness element, a mass, a stopper, and an actuator. The stiffness element is expandable and compressible along an axis. The mass is coupled to the stiffness element. The mass has a resting mass position along the axis. The actua...