US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Aug. 4 for "Systems and methods for directing flexural waves" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,390, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for directing flexural waves" 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 directing flexural waves acting upon a structure. In one example, a system includes a beam and a pair of scatterers disposed on the beam and configured to induce a flexural wave on the beam when actuated at a frequency. The system ...