ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,496, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to JIANGSU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Zhenijiang, China).

"Wind-wave-resistant floating offshore photovoltaic device" was invented by Chunyan Ji (Zhenjiang, China) and Yong Cheng (Zhenjiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wind-wave-resistant floating offshore photovoltaic device includes a photovoltaic array and a mooring unit; the mooring unit used for limiting the position of the photovoltaic array is arranged on two sides and the head of the photovoltaic array, the photovoltaic array includes a breaking-wave base device arranged on a wave facing face, resonance wave absorbing...