ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,990, issued on April 29, was assigned to MBS International AS (Trondheim, Norway).
"Offshore farming system" was invented by Stein Wold Osterhus (Trondheim, Norway), Havard Wollan (Trondheim, Norway), Ragnar Thor Mikkelsen (Trondheim, Norway), John Arnold Fosshode (Trondheim, Norway) and Svein Reppe (Trondheim, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An offshore farming system comprising an elongated vertical support column floating vertically in water with a larger extension below sea surface than above the sea surface, and a rigid cage structure enclosing the elongated vertical support column in circumferential direction and arranged ...