US Patent Issued to Ocean Motion Technologies on April 8 for "Adaptive control of wave energy converters" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,370, issued on April 8, was assigned to Ocean Motion Technologies Inc. (San Diego).

"Adaptive control of wave energy converters" was invented by Alexander J. Orona (San Diego), Boyang Pan (San Diego), Leverett Bezanson (Alpine, Calif.), Paul Glick (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Justin Walraven (San Diego), Mark Huang (Spring Valley, Calif.) and Nathaniel Bell (Tacoma, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wave energy capture system deployed in water converts mechanical motion induced by waves in the water to electrical energy. A controller of the wave energy capture system receives input regarding real-time wave conditions in a vicinity of t...