US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on Dec. 16 for "Detachable buoyant component for making a watercraft self-righting" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,140, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio).

"Detachable buoyant component for making a watercraft self-righting" was invented by Hayk Azatyan (Springfield, Ohio), William Erwin (Oakwood, Ohio), Anthony Ligouri (Bellbrook, Ohio), Travis Rennich (Kettering, Ohio), David Shald (Dayton, Ohio), Adam Warren (Fairborn, Ohio), Jeffrey Parker (Huber Heights, Ohio) and Bon Strout (Centerburg, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component that can be detachably fitted to a watercraft to shift the center of buoyancy of the watercraft and render ...