US Patent Issued to THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING/ MCGILL UNIVERSITY on July 7 for "Metamaterial and metadamper" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,257, issued on July 7, was assigned to THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING/ MCGILL UNIVERSITY (Montreal).

"Metamaterial and metadamper" was invented by Abdolhamid Akbarzadeh Shafaroud (Pointe-Claire, Canada) and Miralireza Seyedkanani (Montreal, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The specification describes assemblies of rotary components in which a magnetic engagement is used as a negative incremental stiffness component and a torsion spring is used as a positive incremental stiffness component to provide new or improved meta-functionalities."

The patent was filed on Oct. 3, 2023, under Application No. 18/480,23...