ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,817, issued on Feb. 24.

"Electro-vibration coupled stress relief system and method for eliminating residual stress using the same" was invented by Bangping Gu (Shanghai), Jingshu Zhuo (Shanghai), Zidi Jin (Shanghai), Liqiang Gao (Shanghai), Yongli Hu (Shanghai), Xiong Hu (Shanghai, St. Helena), Zilin Zhang (Shanghai), Chuanxiao Yang (Shanghai) and Junshuo Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses an electro-vibration coupled stress relief system, comprising a host computer, an arbitrary waveform card, a power amplifier, an electromagnetic exciter, an energy amplification device, an acceleration sen...