US Patent Issued to DUTCH WAVE POWER on April 22 for "Wave energy converter and a method of generating electrical power from wave energy" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,631, issued on April 22, was assigned to DUTCH WAVE POWER B.V. (Vught, Netherlands).

"Wave energy converter and a method of generating electrical power from wave energy" was invented by Sten Swanenberg (Vught, Netherlands) and Hans Lustig (Vught, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wave energy converter includes a float that includes an air chamber that includes a generator that is arranged between the float and a shaft, and that is configured to generate electrical power when the float rotates relative to the shaft, and an elongate spacer configured to connect the float to an anchoring at, on or to a floor of a water body. T...