US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America on Sept. 1 for "Anisotropic elastic metamaterials" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,595, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Anisotropic elastic metamaterials" was invented by Ercan Mehmet Dede (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Yuqing Zhou (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Tsuyoshi Nomura (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Elastic metamaterial designs are provided, such as an acoustic radiator or sound partition, with non-spherical shapes or apertures defined in unit cells of an elastic medium. A method for making the same includes determining a set of boundary conditions for a plurality of non-spherical shapes/apertures defined in the elastic medium, and u...