US Patent Issued to KAWASAKI KISEN on Aug. 25 for "Hauling system involving a captive sail and a flying mooring line" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,565, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA LTD (Tokyo).

"Hauling system involving a captive sail and a flying mooring line" was invented by Swann Verfaillie (Toulouse, France), Nicolas Fantin (Launaguet, France) and Stephane Jan (Montgiscard, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Captive wing traction system (1) including: a trajectory control flying device (7) attached to a traction wing (5) by fixed suspension lines (6) and mobile suspension lines (6), the trajectory control flying device (7) being adapted to control the mobile suspension lines (6); a traction line (8) connecting the trajectory control flying dev...