US Patent Issued to NITTO DENKO on May 13 for "Reinforcing vibration-damping material and reinforcing vibration-damping structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,888, issued on May 13, was assigned to NITTO DENKO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Reinforcing vibration-damping material and reinforcing vibration-damping structure" was invented by Shinichi Taniguchi (Osaka, Japan), Terry Somers (Osaka, Japan) and George Rice (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reinforcing vibration-damping material that includes a reinforcing material and a vibration-damping material disposed on the reinforcing material in a thickness direction of the reinforcing material. The vibration-damping material has a first portion that overlaps the reinforcing material in the thickness direction and a second portion tha...