US Patent Issued to ALFA LAVAL ROTTERDAM on Dec. 16 for "Belt and method for reducing the drag of a hull of a floating vessel" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,135, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ALFA LAVAL ROTTERDAM B.V. (Rotterdam, Netherlands).

"Belt and method for reducing the drag of a hull of a floating vessel" was invented by Pieter Karel Anton Kapteijn (Hilversum, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A belt for reducing the drag of a hull of a floating vessel, whereby the belt includes a belt body extending in a length direction (L), whereby the belt has, a sequence of bubble generators which are embedded in the belt body, whereby the belt has an air channel for supplying pressurized air to the bubble generators, whereby the air channel extends in the length direction (L),...