US Patent Issued to Ocean Motion Technologies on July 1 for "Adaptive wave energy converter" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,228, issued on July 1, was assigned to Ocean Motion Technologies Inc. (San Diego).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wave energy capture system can include a plurality of arm assemblies. Each arm assembly includes a floatation device and an arm that is coupled to the floatation device and to a body via a pivot. The arm assemblies independently pivot around the pivots w...