US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America on July 1 for "Self-adaptive flexural wave absorbing system and related method" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,594, issued on July 1, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Self-adaptive flexural wave absorbing system and related method" was invented by Xiaopeng Li (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Taehwa Lee (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Hideo Iizuka (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Danil V. Prokhorov (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and related method can self-adaptively absorb a flexural wave acting on a beam. The method includes the steps of receiving an input signal representing a frequency response of a flexural wave acting on the beam, determining a spring constant for absorbing the flexural wav...