US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Dec. 16 for "Enhancing performance of systems that absorb vibrations and/or flexural waves by considering adhesive properties" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,862, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Enhancing performance of systems that absorb vibrations and/or flexural waves by considering adhesive properties" was invented by Tomohiro Miwa (Toyota, Japan), Miki Nakahara (Toyota, Japan), Xiaoshi Su (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Debasish Banerjee (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems for absorbing and/or isolating vibrations and/or flexural waves acting upon a structure using scatterers. In one example, a system for absorbing a flexural wave acting u...