ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,932, issued on March 17, was assigned to Next Marine Solutions Inc. (South Bristol, Maine).
"Hydrodynamic power generator and system" was invented by William Peterson (South Bristol, Maine), Amanda Similien (Brunswick, Maine) and Thomas Logan Livingston (Damariscotta, Maine).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to hydrodynamic electric generators, including their structural design, methods of deployment, anchoring systems, drive systems and control systems. The system can be scaled from ones that can be hand carried to large, stationary devices that can generate up to and greater than 20 kw in a current of 3 kno...