US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Oct. 6 for "System for providing buoyancy for a vehicle on a body of water" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,913, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"System for providing buoyancy for a vehicle on a body of water" was invented by Adam Nadel (Vienna, Va.) and Gilbert Lewis Crouse Jr. (Manassas, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing buoyancy for a vehicle on a body of water includes a support structure having an upper support end, a lower support end, and an interlocated portion between the upper and lower support ends, a first shell attached directly or indirectly to the support structure and having an upper first shell end and a lower first shell end, and a mechanism configured to move the ...