US Patent Issued to STEADIWEAR on May 12 for "Vibration absorber" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,741, issued on May 12, was assigned to STEADIWEAR INC. (Toronto).

"Vibration absorber" was invented by Mark Elias (Toronto), Stephen Kimanzi (Orleans, Canada), Leonardo Miguel Araneta (Etobicoke, Canada) and Emile Maamary (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamically tuned vibration absorber includes a magnetic dynamic mass, a repulsive magnetic system, and an attractive magnetic system. The repulsive magnetic system includes one or more repulsive magnets positioned to resist translation of the dynamic mass away from an equilibrium position by magnetic repulsion. The attractive magnetic system includes one or more attractive m...