US Patent Issued to WAVETAMER on April 8 for "Gyroscopic boat roll stabilizer with bearing cooling" (Michigan, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,564, issued on April 8, was assigned to WAVETAMER LLC (Greenville, N.C.).

"Gyroscopic boat roll stabilizer with bearing cooling" was invented by Brian John Sohacki (Livonia, Mich.), Aaron P. Powers (Canton, Mich.) and Grady F. Smith (Greenville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gyroscopic roll stabilizer includes an enclosure, a flywheel assembly, a bearing, a motor, and a bearing cooling circuit. The enclosure is mounted to a gimbal for rotation about a gimbal axis and configured to maintain a below-ambient pressure. The flywheel assembly includes a flywheel and flywheel shaft. The bearing rotatably mounts the flywheel assembly...