ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,013, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to GE ENERGY POWER CONVERSION TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Warwickshire, Great Britain).
"Cyclorotors" was invented by Lionel Julliand (Belfort, France), Jorgen Jorde (Bergen, Norway) and Theo Grall (Belfort, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrangement is described includes a pressurised gas system and a cyclorotor located within an annular structure. The cyclorotor can be a propulsor for a marine vessel and includes a rotary housing spaced apart from the structure by an annular volume, and a plurality of blades extending from a surface of the rotary housing, each blade having a respective blade ax...