Data processing: generic control systems or specific application – Specific application – apparatus or process – Electrical power generation or distribution system
Reexamination Certificate
2010-05-11
2011-10-25
Barnes-Bullock, Crystal J (Department: 2122)
Data processing: generic control systems or specific application
Specific application, apparatus or process
Electrical power generation or distribution system
C290S042000, C290S053000, C060S398000, C060S495000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08046108
ABSTRACT:
A system and method for harnessing power associated with ocean waves and converting that power into electricity. The apparatus is a buoy that houses a vertically oriented central shaft, a pendulum, a generator mechanism, and other components that synergistically operate to optimize power output of the buoy. Both the load on the pendulum and the effective length of the pendulum may be varied in response to changing environmental conditions. Also, the buoy may be part of a network that shares environmental data and a series of best tuning responses to that data, across the network. A library of environmental data and associated tuning responses is built at a central location and shared across the network.
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Barnes-Bullock Crystal J
Buskop Wendy
Buskop Law Group PC
Neptune Wave Power, LLC
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