ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,998, issued on May 26.
"Latching full-length hollow shaft wave energy converter for scalable conversion and storage" was invented by Brian Wall (Glengarriff, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the use of marine devices for ocean energy extraction.The invention provides for a wave energy converter that uses latching to control a buoyant moving component that comprises a float attached to a shaft with a piston that pressurises fluid in a compression chamber within a submerged floatation component.According to the present invention, the shaft is a full-length hollow shaft that extends down through the...