US Patent Issued to IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES on Oct. 21 for "Method for predicting a characteristic resulting from a swell on the basis of a spectral model of the swell" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,942, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

"Method for predicting a characteristic resulting from a swell on the basis of a spectral model of the swell" was invented by Paolino Tona (Rueil-Malmaison, France) and Alexis Merigaud (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a method for predicting a swell-resulting characteristic for a floating system. The method updates (MAJ) a spectral model (MSH) of the swell to form a swell prediction model (MPR). This model is applied to real-time measurements (MES) to predict the swell-resulting characteristic (pre...