ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,675, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to GKINETIC ENERGY Ltd. (County Limerick, Ireland).
"Blade pitch control arrangement" was invented by Vincent McCormack (County Limerick, Ireland) and Gary Brennan (County Limerick, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water turbine assembly for installation in a water flow defining a flow direction, the assembly comprising: an array of blades that is rotatable by the water flow about a turbine axis, transverse to the flow direction, to describe a blade path surrounding the turbine axis, each of the blades being pivotable about a respective pitch axis, the pitch axes being distributed with mutua...