ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,215, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Momentum Technologies AS (Trondheim, Norway).

"Viscoelastic damper assembly" was invented by Even Lund (Skatval, Norway), Haavard Bjorkoy Johnsen (Ranheim, Norway) and Lina Odlund (Malvik, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Viscoelastic damper assembly applicable both in air and submerged applications and with improved efficiency over prior art solutions for adding damping to an object or structure."

The patent was filed on Dec. 2, 2021, under Application No. 18/253,827.

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