US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on Aug. 18 for "Multi-chamber internally damped tuned vibration absorber" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,090, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Multi-chamber internally damped tuned vibration absorber" was invented by Richard Alan Manwell (Wichita, Kan.), Lloyd Maurice Kronk (Wichita, Kan.) and Anindya Ghosh (Wichita, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-chamber internally damped tuned vibration absorber includes a mass having internal chambers that house damping members for dissipating vibrational motion of the mass. Guide members pass through the internal chambers and guide movement of the mass. An attachment member attaches the guide members to a structure to attenuate vibrations ...