US Patent Issued to Verterra Energy on June 9 for "Underwater anchoring devices, systems, and methods" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,546, issued on June 9, was assigned to Verterra Energy Inc. (New Brighton, Minn.).

"Underwater anchoring devices, systems, and methods" was invented by Theodore J. Christopher (St Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method of submersible deployment that includes submersing a submersible turbine toward an anchor seated along a bottom of a body of water so that tail portion of the submersible turbine is oriented closer to a cap of the anchor and upstream of a nose portion of the submersible turbine, urging the submersible turbine against a directio...