US Patent Issued to Ride Awake on July 21 for "Electrically powered surfboard, and a surfboard battery housing" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,294, issued on July 21, was assigned to Ride Awake ApS (Copenhagen, Denmark).

"Electrically powered surfboard, and a surfboard battery housing" was invented by Pontus Edman (Solna, Sweden), Viktor Berglin (Stockholm), Markus Stridsberg (Stockholm), Matthias Bjerkesjo Braakman (Lund, Sweden), Philip Sveningsson (Hollviken, Sweden) and Martin Prame Malmqvist (Svedala, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surfboard including a surfboard body and having an upper surface and a bottom surface, an upwardly open cavity formed in the upper surface, an electric drive for propelling the surfboard, a battery housing having an upper face and b...