ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,944, issued on Oct. 21.
"Energy generating device" was invented by Harald Kuhn (Cloppenburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy generating device for generating energy from a flowing fluid, especially from a wind flow and/or from a water flow, comprises: a rotation body, the rotation body extending along an axis of rotation between a first point and a second point and the rotation body being adapted to rotate about the axis of rotation and the rotation body being formed from at least a first, a second, and a third rotation segment, wherein the rotation segments are joined together and arranged along the axis of rotation...