US Patent Issued to Advanced Innergy on July 28 for "Vortex-induced vibration strake arrangements" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,958, issued on July 28, was assigned to Advanced Innergy Ltd (Gloucester, Great Britain).

"Vortex-induced vibration strake arrangements" was invented by Florian Vivien Gay (La Ciotat, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vortex-induced vibration (VIV) strake arrangement is provided. The VIV strake arrangement comprises: a VIV strake shell for location on a conduit; and a VIV strake fin, for coupling to the VIV strake shell, comprising a flexible fin tip, a flexible first leg extending from the flexible fin tip and a flexible second leg extending from the flexible fin tip, wherein the VIV strake fin is shaped such that when the VIV...