US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on March 31 for "Systems for absorbing flexural waves acting upon a structure using monopole and dipole resonance" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,411, issued on March 31, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems for absorbing flexural waves acting upon a structure using monopole and dipole resonance" 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 and devices for absorbing flexural waves. In one example, a pair of scatterers for absorbing a flexural wave acting on a structure includes a monopole scatterer and a dipole scatterer...