ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,527, issued on July 14, was assigned to LONE GULL HOLDINGS LTD. (Portland, Ore.).
"Geographically reconfigurable wave-powered computing network" was invented by Garth Alexander Sheldon-Coulson (Portland, Ore.) and Brian Lee Moffat (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for deploying, stationing, and translocating buoyant wind- and wave-energy converters, as well as farms of same. A plurality of buoyant wave energy converters are positioned in a body of water with an automated system for controlling their location, where the converters are self-propelled. Propulsion units move the wave energy converters in response to...