US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on April 7 for "Systems and methods for increasing a resonator quality factor" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,409, issued on April 7, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for increasing a resonator quality factor" was invented by Xiaopeng Li (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Taehwa Lee (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Ziqi Yu (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to a high-Q resonant state embedded system in a continuous body. In one embodiment, a system includes a longitudinally extending body that is subject to a flexural wave. The longitudinally extending body is attached to ...