ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,121, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Vale S.A. (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
"Apparatus for stabilization of an instrumentation platform" was invented by Benjamin David Polzer (Sudbury, Canada) and Richard Curtis Bailey (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for rotation rate damping of a suspended platform, the apparatus including a plurality of vertically-extended partially-filled fluid reservoirs, each of the reservoirs being open at a top and offset from a center of gravity of the suspended platform, the reservoirs being connected by tubing permitting fluid to flow between reservoirs in response to gravitational acce...