ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,642, issued on June 2, was assigned to OTHER LAB LLC (San Francisco).
"Vehicle for installing anchors in an underwater substrate" was invented by Peter Sturt Lynn (Alameda, Calif.) and Jonathan B. Pompa (Long Beach, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anchor installation vehicle that includes a vehicle frame having a top end and bottom end, one or more arms extending outward from the vehicle frame, one or more rotational thrusters disposed at distal ends of the one or more arms, and an anchor system configured to hold an anchor extending from the bottom end of the vehicle frame with the anchor aligned with a central axis Y. The a...