US Patent Issued to Volvo Car on Feb. 24 for "Unit cell and structural panel assemblies with enhanced impact and noise absorption characteristics" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,143, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Unit cell and structural panel assemblies with enhanced impact and noise absorption characteristics" was invented by Kaustubh Deshmukh (Gothenburg, Sweden), Aleksandra Sadowska (Gothenburg, Sweden), Dag Aronson (Gothenburg, Sweden), Jan Nilsson (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Sladjana Strbac (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structural panel assembly including an array of unit cell assemblies. Each unit cell assembly includes: an outer frame member spaced apart from an inner frame member; a plurality of quasi-zero stiffness (QZS) spring members...