US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on March 24 for "Angle independent acoustic structures for broadband sound absorption and sound transmission loss" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,556, issued on March 24, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Angle independent acoustic structures for broadband sound absorption and sound transmission loss" was invented by Xiaoshi Su (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Debasish Banerjee (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Tomohiro Miwa (Toyota, Japan), Miki Nakahara (Toyota, Japan), Reimi Emoto (Toyota, Japan), Mizuki Sakamoto (Toyota, Japan) and Toyohiro Sone (Handa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic structure includes at least one acoustic scatterer that is angle independent and has multiple resonan...