ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,954, issued on April 29, was assigned to Lone Gull Holdings Ltd..
"Buoy with radiated wave reflector" was invented by Brian Lee Moffat (Portland, Ore.) and Grzegorz Piotr Filip (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is buoyant wave energy capture device, adapted to float adjacent to an upper surface of a body of water over which waves pass, and adapted to capture a portion of the radiated waves created by its own rising and falling in response to incident and/or passing environmental waves. A power take off mechanism combined with the disclosed wave energy capture device may be tuned to a specific wave frequency, and...