US Patent Issued to SEATRAIN TECHNOLOGY on April 8 for "Variable ballast propulsion shipping vessel, systems and methods" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,565, issued on April 8, was assigned to SEATRAIN TECHNOLOGY LLC (Boynton Beach, Fla.).

"Variable ballast propulsion shipping vessel, systems and methods" was invented by Randy Durst (Boynton Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variable ballast propulsion shipping vessel comprising a lead segment, a cargo segment(s), and/or a tail segment hingedly attached in series. Each lead and cargo segment includes a bottom-mounted fixed ballast, a top-mounted dorsal wing with rudder, and side mounted pairs of planed wings projecting laterally (fixed or stowable). An onboard variable ballast tank is selectively air filled using a compres...