US Patent Issued to Lone Gull Holdings on Oct. 7 for "Pressure-regulating hydrodynamic pump and wave engine with energy product generation and transport" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,692, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Lone Gull Holdings Ltd. (Portland, Ore.).

"Pressure-regulating hydrodynamic pump and wave engine with energy product generation and transport" was invented by Garth Alexander Sheldon-Coulson (Portland, Ore.) and Brian Lee Moffat (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pressure-regulating buoyant hydrodynamic pump is disclosed that floats adjacent to a surface of a body of water over which waves tend to pass. In response to wave-induced movements of the device, water is drawn into a mouth at a lower end of an injection tube, and water is ejected from a mouth at an upper end of the injecti...