ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,829, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Anti-vibration device" was invented by Kazuhiro Hayashi (Nisshin-city, Japan), Yasumasa Yamazaki (Nisshin-city, Japan), Motohiko Ueda (Kariya-city, Japan), Yoshikatsu Sawada (Kariya-city, Japan) and Takaya Morishita (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anti-vibration device is secured to a vibration source and a vibration transmission portion to inhibit transmission of vibration, and includes a first elastically deformed portion, a second elastically deformed portion and a third elastically deformed portion. The first elastically deformed portion is ...