US Patent Issued to Texas A&M University System on April 8 for "Systems and methods for blocking a surge of water" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,170, issued on April 8, was assigned to Texas A&M University System (College Station, Texas).

"Systems and methods for blocking a surge of water" was invented by John Albert Sweetman (Galveston, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surge gate for blocking a surge of water includes a sleeve disposed below a waterline of the water, wherein the sleeve has an open upper end and a closed lower end, and a piston slidably disposed in the sleeve, wherein the piston is configured to rise vertically within the sleeve along a vertical axis between a first position with an upper end of the piston positioned below the waterline, and a second po...