ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,943, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to E-Wave Technologies LLC (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).
"Two-body flexible tether-connected oscillating water column" was invented by Junhui Lou (Albany, Ore.) and Adam Bennett (Hoboken, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oscillating water column (OWC) includes a top body and a bottom body. The top body includes a hollow shape, an open top end, an open bottom end, a chamber traversing between the open top and bottom ends, a power take-off system proximate to the open top end, and an air channel proximate to the open top end and the power take-off system. The bottom body includes a bottom heave plate ...