US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America on Feb. 11 for "Systems and methods for adaptive flexural wave absorber" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,825, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Systems and methods for adaptive flexural wave absorber" was invented by Xiaopeng Li (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Taehwa Lee (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Hideo Iizuka (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexural wave absorption system includes a base member connected to a beam that may be subject to flexural waves, an arm member, connected to the base, disposed substantially in parallel alignment with the beam, a mass member connected to a distal end of the arm member, a piezoelectric patch, connected to the arm member...