US Patent Issued to StationKeep on Jan. 13 for "Foot pad for submerged machinery" (Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,324, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to StationKeep LLC (Portland, Maine).

"Foot pad for submerged machinery" was invented by Richard H. Akers (Portland, Maine) and Melissa E. Landon (Portland, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foot pad removably attachable to a machine and that supports the machine for operation in a fluid. The foot pad includes a support frame, a skirt coupled to the support frame, a bellows coupled to the skirt, a plenum arranged to move within the skirt, a seal between the plenum and the skirt, and a flexible bellows that allows the foot pad to be secured to, or within, a substrate. The skirt includes an edg...