ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,107, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to RAFNAR EHF (Reykjavik, Iceland).
"Modular keel" was invented by Ossur Kristinsson (Reykjavik, Iceland), Owen Mark Langdon (Glasgow, Great Britain), Pall Einarsson (Reykjavik, Iceland) and Daniel Kvernoy (Eivindvik, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular keel is arranged along a centerline of a boat hull for displacing a bow wave towards the stern and creating distinct pressure zone situations to draw the keel back into water and reduce pitching. The keel features a base extending along a centerline of the boat hull and two symmetric curved segments. The base tapers toward a vertex on...