US Patent Issued to WAVE SWELL ENERGY on July 29 for "Apparatus and method for extracting energy from a fluid" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,054, issued on July 29, was assigned to WAVE SWELL ENERGY Ltd. (Australia).

"Apparatus and method for extracting energy from a fluid" was invented by Thomas Denniss (Hornsby, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method is disclosed for extracting energy from an oscillating working fluid, such as ocean waves. The apparatus (10) comprises an internal flow passage (40) for the working fluid, a turbine (44) and a flow control device (38), each of the turbine (44) and the flow control device (38) being in direct fluid communication with the flow passage (40), wherein in use the flow control device (38) is selectively ...