ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,055, issued on Aug. 4.

"Wind-powered energy generation system for multi-hull marine vessels" was invented by Mario Curcio (Hochdorf, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure refers to a wind-powered energy generation system (100) for a multi-hull marine vessel (200) comprising at least two hulls (201), (202) and a bridge deck (203) connecting the at least two hulls (201), (202), where the energy generation system (100) comprises at least one wind turbine (101) located aft under the bridge deck (203) such as to be powered by airflow (150) passing under the bridge deck (203) from bow (204) to stern (205) of the ...