US Patent Issued to KAWASAKI KISEN on March 31 for "Tethered-wing traction system and method for moving carriages" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,849, issued on March 31, was assigned to KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA LTD (Tokyo).

"Tethered-wing traction system and method for moving carriages" 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: "Tethered-wing traction system including: a traction wing (5), a base platform (3), a mooring mast (4), a plurality of folding lines (10A,10B,10C), a furling line (13), a mooring carriage (12B), a folding carriage (12C, 12D, 12E), a furling carriage (12A), and a control module (64) having at least the following two operating modes: a folding ...