US Patent Issued to LONE GULL HOLDINGS on March 3 for "Pressure-regulating hydrodynamic pump and wave engine" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,874, issued on March 3, was assigned to LONE GULL HOLDINGS LTD. (Portland, Ore.).

"Pressure-regulating hydrodynamic pump and wave engine" was invented by Brian Lee Moffat (Portland, Ore.), Garth Alexander Sheldon-Coulson (Portland, Ore.), Ivar Lee Thorson (Portland, Ore.), Daniel William Place (Portland, Ore.) and Alexander David Chally (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pressure-regulating buoyant hydrodynamic pump is disclosed that floats adjacent to a surface of a body of water over which waves tend to pass. In response to wave-induced movements of the device, water is drawn into a mouth at a lower end of an injectio...