ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,605, issued on May 20, was assigned to Verderg Ltd. (Woking Surrey, Great Britain).
"Power generation and/or storage apparatus" was invented by Peter Roberts (Woking, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power generation and/or storage apparatus comprising a buoyant flywheel, wherein the flywheel is arranged, in use, in contact with a body of liquid for rotation about a substantially vertical axis, an underside of the flywheel comprising a circumferentially extending opening, wherein, in use, gas is trapped within the opening by the surface of the liquid to define an gas cushion for supporting the flywheel."
The patent was...