ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,474, issued on Aug. 11.
"Energy recovery system for marine vessels" was invented by Mario Curcio (Hochdorf, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy recovery system 100 for a marine vessel 200 is herein disclosed comprising at least one water turbine 101, 102 with vertical axis 105, 106 respectively arranged aft and off center, that is either port side or starboard side, with respect to a rotational axis 211 of a respective propeller but at a distance from the propeller and from the rotational axis of the propeller such as to be at least partially in a wake range 21' of the propeller in order to recover at least part of t...