US Patent Issued to GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES on Dec. 9 for "Floating oscillating water column-type wave energy power generation" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,674, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Guangzhou, China).

"Floating oscillating water column-type wave energy power generation" was invented by Xianguang Liang (Guangzhou, China), Yaqun Zhang (Guangzhou, China), Songwei Sheng (Guangzhou, China) and Yin Ye (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A floating oscillating water column-type wave energy power generation apparatus includes a first runner chamber and a protective cap, wherein a nozzle is mounted inside the first runner chamber, a flow-guiding cone is coaxially mounted below the nozzle, the flow-gui...