US Patent Issued to Lone Gull Holdings on Dec. 16 for "Inertial hydrodynamic pump and wave engine" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,702, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Lone Gull Holdings Ltd. (Portland, Ore.).

"Inertial hydrodynamic pump and wave engine" was invented by Garth Alexander Sheldon-Coulson (Portland, Ore.), Brian Lee Moffat (Portland, Ore.), Daniel William Place (Portland, Ore.) and Ivar Lee Thorson (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A buoyant hydrodynamic pump is disclosed that can float on a surface of a body of water. Wave-driven oscillations result in periodic upward ejections of water inside a downwardly projecting tube that can be collected in a reservoir. Water within such a reservoir may return to the body of water via a turbin...