US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Dec. 9 for "System for noise control in air mobility unitizing an array of acoustic scatterers" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,012, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"System for noise control in air mobility unitizing an array of acoustic scatterers" was invented by Mizuki Sakamoto (Toyota, Japan), Tomohiro Miwa (Toyota, Japan), Reimi Emoto (Nagoya, Japan), Xiaoshi Su (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Debasish Banerjee (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for isolating sound generated by an aircraft utilizing a helipad may include a plurality of acoustic scatterers being disposed adjacent to at least a portion of a perimeter of the hel...