US Patent Issued to WING MARINE on Sept. 9 for "Marine vessels and methods of using same" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,583, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to WING MARINE LLC (League City, Texas).

"Marine vessels and methods of using same" was invented by John Crowson (Lovelady, Texas), Mel Friedman (Montgomery, Texas), Douglas W. Thompson (Amarillo, Texas) and Peter C. Crossland (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Marine pump vessels and wing fluidizer support vessels, and methods of using same. Wing fluidizer support vessels are configured to deploy a wing fluidizer including thrusters capable of fluidizing sediments from a first seabed location and moving it to a second seabed location. Pump vessels include one or more pumps deployable from a...