ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,077, issued on April 29, was assigned to SCOTRA Corp. (Gunsan-si, South Korea).

"Eco-friendly floating photovoltaic power generation system having functions of self-generating oxygen in water and preventing frame corrosion" was invented by Jong-Mok Lee (Pyeongtaek-si, South Korea), Chang-Sub Won (Seoul, South Korea), Dong-Chan Kim (Ansan-si, South Korea), Myeng-Gil Gang (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Sang-Gu Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a water solar power generation system including: a solar cell plate; a frame supporting the solar cell frame; and a float installed in the frame and po...