US Patent Issued to Kelly Slater Wave on July 8 for "Wave pool and wave generator for bi-directional and dynamically-shaped surfing waves" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,068, issued on July 8, was assigned to Kelly Slater Wave Co. LLC (Los Angeles).

"Wave pool and wave generator for bi-directional and dynamically-shaped surfing waves" was invented by Adam Fincham (Los Angeles), Alex Poirot (Los Angeles), Nathan Loewen (Coldstream, Calif.) and Robert Kelly Slater (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wave pool and wave generating mechanism are disclosed. The wave pool includes a bathymetry that includes a dynamically shapeable reef along a length or circumference of a channel that defines the wave pool. The wave generating mechanism includes a foil that has a shape for bi-directionality based o...