ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,058, issued on March 18, was assigned to Marine Power Systems Ltd. (Swansea, Great Britain).
"Drive assembly" was invented by Graham Foster (Swansea, Great Britain), John Chapman (Swansea, Great Britain) and Ashley Norman (Swansea, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive assembly is provided suitable for aiding in the conversion of wave energy to useful energy. The drive assembly of the present invention is arranged to transfer wave energy to an energy converter, the drive assembly comprising a wave energy capturing member; and a lever arm coupled to the wave energy capturing member, the lever arm being movable between ...