US Patent Issued to Fluor Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Systems and methods for growing and harvesting seaweed using non-producing offshore platforms" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,213, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Fluor Technologies Corp. (Irving, Texas).

"Systems and methods for growing and harvesting seaweed using non-producing offshore platforms" was invented by Phillip Nguyen (Houston), James Shih (Houston) and Aditya Hariharan (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An offshore system for growing and harvesting seaweed. In some instances, the offshore system for growing and harvesting seaweed includes an existing non-producing offshore platform. In addition, in some instances, the offshore system for growing and harvesting seaweed includes a seaweed support system coupled to the platform and confi...