US Patent Issued to WAVETAMER on April 21 for "Deceleration of gyroscopic boat roll stabilizer" (North Carolina, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,280, issued on April 21, was assigned to WAVETAMER LLC (Greenville, N.C.).

"Deceleration of gyroscopic boat roll stabilizer" was invented by Grady F. Smith (Greenville, N.C.) and Jon Benavides (Sterling Heights, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gyroscopic roll stabilizer includes an enclosure, a flywheel assembly, a bearing, a motor, and a bearing cooling circuit. The enclosure is mounted to a gimbal for rotation about a gimbal axis and configured to maintain a below-ambient pressure. The flywheel assembly includes a flywheel and flywheel shaft. The bearing rotatably mounts the flywheel assembly inside the enclosure for rotati...