US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Sept. 9 for "Kelp wave energy collector apparatus and system" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,767, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Kelp wave energy collector apparatus and system" was invented by Thomas L. Jiang (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments provide a wave energy collector apparatus and system. According to an example embodiment, a wave energy collector apparatus may comprise a plurality of energy collection units, a support structure, and an anchoring element. The plurality of energy collection units may be configured to capture kinetic energy from water movement through use of organic material grown...