US Patent Issued to WAVETAMER on Jan. 28 for "Gyroscopic boat stabilizer with motor cooling" (Michigan, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,868, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to WAVETAMER LLC (Greenville, N.C.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gyroscopic roll stabilizer for a boat includes an enclosure mounted to a gimbal for rotation about a gimbal axis and configured to maintain a below-ambient pressure, and a flywheel assembly including a flywheel and flywheel shaft, with the flywheel assembly rotatably mounted inside the enclosure for rotation about a flywheel axis. The gyroscopic roll stabilizer also i...