US Patent Issued to University of Oregon on April 8 for "Marine lantern with continuous loop suspension" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,529, issued on April 8, was assigned to University of Oregon (Eugene, Ore.).

"Marine lantern with continuous loop suspension" was invented by Trygve A. Faste (Eugene, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lantern that can be suspended under high tension includes a housing with a central longitudinal channel passing through the entire length of the lantern, and a continuous loop cable passing through the central channel with top and bottom portions of the loop positioned outside the channel. The lantern also includes a plurality of LED lights, an electric battery, an electronic controller circuit, and a button allowing a user to chang...