US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on May 13 for "Flexural wave absorbers for wave and vibration isolation in thin walled structures" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,207, issued on May 13, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Flexural wave absorbers for wave and vibration isolation in thin walled structures" was invented by Xiaopeng Li (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ziqi Yu (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Taehwa Lee (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexural wave absorber includes a metasurface with an inner portion, an outer portion, and a plurality of beam strips extending between the inner portion and the outer portion. The metasurface also includes a plurality of coupled resonators disposed on the plu...