US Patent Issued to BRIDGESTONE on Sept. 1 for "Sound absorbing tool and assembly" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,429, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to BRIDGESTONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sound absorbing tool and assembly" was invented by Yoshihide Kouno (Tokyo) and Akira Kobayakawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sound absorbing tool according to this disclosure includes: an endless housing body that internally defines a housing space and is stretchable in a circumferential direction; and a shapeless sound absorbing material that is housed in the housing space of the housing body."

The patent was filed on Oct. 3, 2022, under Application No. 18/711,878.

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