US Patent Issued to University of Maine System Board of Trustees on Sept. 1 for "Heel tank damper for floating structures" (Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,754, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to University of Maine System Board of Trustees (Orono, Maine).

"Heel tank damper for floating structures" was invented by Christopher K. Allen (Bangor, Maine), Andrew J. Goupee (Ellsworth, Maine), Richard Kimball (Sedgwick, Maine), Anthony M. Viselli (Bangor, Maine) and Habib J. Dagher (Veazie, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A barge-type wind turbine platform in combination with a heel tank damper includes a barge-type wind turbine platform having a keystone, two pairs of bottom beams, each including two bottom beams connected to opposite sides of the keystone, wherein the combined pairs of...