ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,930, issued on March 25.
"Siphonage hydroelectric generation device with screw turbine" was invented by Shun-Tsung Lu (Taichung, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A siphonage hydroelectric generation device has a water source, a storage tank fluidly communicating with the water source via a first siphon pipe, at least one channel fluidly communicating with the storage tank and extending obliquely and downwardly, at least one screw turbine disposed in the at least one channel, and at least one power generator connected to the at least one screw turbine. Each first siphon pipe has a siphoning inlet end portion inserted into the st...