ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,738, issued on July 14, was assigned to ONEKA TECHNOLOGIES (Sherbrooke, Canada).
"Wave-actuated system, wave energy converter subsystem, and method for operating a reverse-osmosis desalination subsystem" was invented by Dragan Tutic (Sherbrooke, Canada), Elliot Charron (Sherbrooke, Canada), Gilbert Perron (Sherbrooke, Canada), Jean-Luc Michaud (Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Canada), Yannick Caron (Sherbrooke, Canada), Alexandre Savard (Sainte-Petronille, Canada) and Renaud Lafortune (Sherbrooke, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wave-actuated system for desalination of water by reverse osmosis (RO) has at least one offshore wave energy ...