US Patent Issued to Trane International on Oct. 21 for "Tunable acoustic metamaterials for sound dampening of HVAC equipment" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,159, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Trane International Inc. (Davidson, N.C.).

"Tunable acoustic metamaterials for sound dampening of HVAC equipment" was invented by Richard L. Jameson (Tyler, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to improved sound attenuation configurations and methods of manufacturing the same. An example embodiment includes a low noise climate control device. This device may include a housing and a noise producing component within the housing. Further, the device may include an acoustic metamaterial stack arranged in the housing. The acoustic metamaterial sta...