US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Jan. 27 for "Sound-mitigating device for a duct system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,985, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Sound-mitigating device for a duct system" was invented by Taehwa Lee (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ayrton Ackerman (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Taesoo Kim (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Takumi J. Jinmon (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ercan Mehmet Dede (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Danil V. Prokhorov (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A duct includes a duct body. The duct body defines an inlet, an outlet, and a channel connecting the inlet and the outlet. The duct body is configured to direct gas flowing within the ...