US Patent Issued to University of Florida Research Foundation on Sept. 9 for "Compact mechanical waveguides for impact devices" (Mississippi, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,540, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation INC. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Compact mechanical waveguides for impact devices" was invented by Ghatu Subhash (Gainesville, Fla.) and Wilburn Whittington (Starkville, Miss.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to compact waveguide impact devices. One example includes a branching compact mechanical waveguide that has at least one input impact location and at least one input impact location output impact point. The compact waveguide impact device also includes at least one input impact component. A controller device activates the at...