US Patent Issued to Lone Gull Holdings on Oct. 7 for "Recirculating inertial hydrodynamic pump and wave engine" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,693, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Lone Gull Holdings Ltd. (Portland, Ore.).

"Recirculating inertial hydrodynamic pump and wave engine" 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: "Embodiments disclosed herein include buoyant wave energy converters. In an embodiment, the wave energy converter comprises an upper chamber having a first fluid reservoir and a first gas pocket, and a lower chamber having a second fluid reservoir and a second gas pocket. An injection tube is between and fluidly coupled to the upper chamber and the lower chamber, wher...