ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,434, issued on April 14.
"Mooring apparatus" was invented by Jeremy J. Papadopoulos (Manchester, Great Britain) and Vincent Loccisano (Wellesley, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mooring line that provides substantially constant force, also referred to a mooring line that is always soft, allows the orbital motion of a moored turbine structure under varying wave conditions and is suitable for storm conditions when the turbine is not operating. A mooring line with substantially constant force does not create surge acceleration from heave acceleration and does not cause the turbine structure to be pulled through the water relativ...