US Patent Issued to University of Massachusetts on Nov. 4 for "Pivoting AUV/UUV dock for use with a wave energy converter" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,615, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to University of Massachusetts (Boston).

"Pivoting AUV/UUV dock for use with a wave energy converter" was invented by Gregory E Browne (Bridgewater, Mass.), Christopher M Meninno (Taunton, Mass.), Daniel G MacDonald (Mashpee, Mass.) and Mehdi Raessi (North Dartmouth, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An AUV/UUV docking station is provided that is tethered to a wave energy converter that is in turn tethered to a flotation buoy. The AUV/UUV docking station has a cone for directing an AUV/UUV into a charging dock that is rotatable between a horizontal docking position and a vertical charging positio...