US Patent Issued to W. L. Gore & Associates on July 21 for "Hybrid supported acoustic membrane assembly" (Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,857, issued on July 21, was assigned to W. L. Gore & Associates Inc. (Newark, Del.).

"Hybrid supported acoustic membrane assembly" was invented by Seong Woo Lee (Newark, Del.) and Jason Manthey (Newark, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly (10) includes a first support member (15) having a plurality of first apertures (50); a second support member (20) having a plurality of second apertures (55); and a polymer membrane (25) disposed between the first support member (15) and the second support member (20). The polymer membrane (25) is spaced from the first support member (15) by a first distance (30) and from the second sup...