US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Aug. 12 for "Light-activated acoustic resonator and associated methods" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,706, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Light-activated acoustic resonator and associated methods" was invented by Taehwa Lee (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Xiaopeng Li (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Ziqi Yu (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-activated acoustic resonator and associated methods are described herein. One embodiment measures the level of ambient light in the environment of the light-activated acoustic resonator; causes a moveable member of an electromagnet disposed within a Helmholtz resonator of the l...