US Patent Issued to Diverse Marine Safety Group on March 4 for "Person overboard retrieval apparatus" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,576, issued on March 4, was assigned to Diverse Marine Safety Group LLC (Virginia Beach, Va.).

"Person overboard retrieval apparatus" was invented by Frank Rabena (Virginia Beach, Va.), Jerry Ryan Bryant (Virginia Beach, Va.), William Saunders (Suffolk, Va.) and Jacob Johnson (Suffolk, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deployable conscious or unconscious person-in-the-water rescue apparatus that can be manually or automatically deployed multiple and consecutive times to assist both a rescuer and a person-in-the-water by providing a tethered net that self-deploys in the water and supports the person-in-the-water while being pulled ...