US Patent Issued to LONE GULL HOLDINGS on June 3 for "Inertial hydrodynamic pump and wave engine" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,323, issued on June 3, 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.) and Daniel William Place (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 over which waves tend to pass. The pump incorporates an open-bottomed tube with a constriction. The tube partially encloses a substantial volume of water with which the tube's constriction interacts, creating and/or amplifying oscillations therein in respo...