US Patent Issued to Mathers Hydraulics Technologies on April 15 for "River venturi power amplification, storage and regeneration system and method" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,248, issued on April 15, was assigned to Mathers Hydraulics Technologies Pty Ltd (Bridgeman Downs, Australia).

"River venturi power amplification, storage and regeneration system and method" was invented by Norman Ian Mathers (Brisbane, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and apparatuses including systems and methods that can be used for operating a hydrokinetic turbine such as along one or more flow channels of a river for power generation is disclosed. The hydrokinetic turbine can be positioned within the one or more flow channels or can be shaped to form one or more flows and can be turned by the flow of the r...