US Patent Issued to Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Kunsan National University on April 21 for "Support structure for offshore wind power generator and method of installing the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,974, issued on April 21, was assigned to Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Kunsan National University (Gunsan-si, South Korea).

"Support structure for offshore wind power generator and method of installing the same" was invented by Dong Hyawn Kim (Sejong, South Korea) and Jang Ho Lee (Gunsan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a support structure for an offshore wind power generator which is applicable to various seafloor terrains by increasing the number of seafloor penetration cylinders that are installed to be penetrated into and fixed to a seafloor ground and in which a vibration generation part a...