US Patent Issued to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York on Aug. 26 for "Metamaterial with temporally varying elastic properties" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,553, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Amherst, N.Y.).

"Metamaterial with temporally varying elastic properties" was invented by Mostafa Nouh (Clarence Center, N.Y.), Mohammad Ali Attarzadeh (Amherst, N.Y.) and Jesse Callanan (Buffalo, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure include metabeams with nonreciprocal dispersion. A host beam has a length along a longitudinal axis and is configured to vibrate (oscillate) over its length. The vibration may be in a first direction perpendicular to the length of the host beam. A plurality of first r...