US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Aug. 18 for "Systems and devices for absorbing vibrations and/or flexural waves acting upon a structure" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,083, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and devices for absorbing vibrations and/or flexural waves acting upon a structure" was invented by Tomohiro Miwa (Toyota, Japan), Miki Nakahara (Toyota, Japan), Xiaoshi Su (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Debasish Banerjee (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems for absorbing and/or isolating vibrations and/or flexural waves acting upon a structure using scatterers. In one example, a scatterer includes a pair of supports separated from each other by ...