US Patent Issued to ECO Trawl AS on Sept. 9 for "Traction device for towing an object along a water surface or through a body of water" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,920, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ECO Trawl AS (Sogne, Norway).

"Traction device for towing an object along a water surface or through a body of water" was invented by Mads Bjornenak (Kristiansand, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traction device for towing an object along a water surface or through a body of water, the traction unit comprising at least one propulsive engine. The device device has a common center of gravity, center of thrust and center of buoyancy (13). A bridle (17) is attached to turn about an axis (14) through said common center (13). The bridle (17) has an attachment (18) at a distal end from the tu...