ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,179, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SEA6 ENERGY PVT. LTD. (Bangalore, India).
"Apparatuses and methods for seaweed embedded intertwined rope matrix" was invented by Siddarth Koppal (Bangalore, India), Jiju Thomas (Kerala, India) and Nelson Vadassery (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for forming a rope matrix having seaweed propagules embedded therein is provided and may include an intertwining assembly configured to intertwine at least three ropes at a braiding point to form a rope matrix. Further, the apparatus may include a conveying device configured to introduce seaweed propagules adjacent to the b...