US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on July 21 for "Laminated vehicle glass structures including embedded piezoelectric exciters for sound generation" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,343, issued on July 21, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Laminated vehicle glass structures including embedded piezoelectric exciters for sound generation" was invented by Julien P. Mourou (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Bo Yang (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Gerard Parij (Warren, Mich.) and Bradley Allen Newcomb (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Laminated vehicle glass structures included embedded piezoelectric exciters for sound generation. The piezoelectric exciters are embedded at least partially within the laminating materials and are offset relative to a centerline longitudinally extending between...