On February 12, 2019, the University of Maine was issued two patents for technologies that prepare Maine to be a world leader in floating offshore wind energy. The two patents are:• US 10,202,170 B2, February 12, 2019. Hull for a Floating Wind Turbine Platform. Habib Dagher, Anthony Viselli, and Mark Dwyer.• US 10,202,174 B2, February 12, 2019. Buoy with Integrated Motion Compensation. Habib J. Dagher, Neal Pettigrew, Anthony Viselli, Rachael Joyce, John Wallinga, Patrick Fikes, and Neil Fisher.The patent titled ‘Hull for a Floating Wind Turbine Platform’ is the VolturnUS floating concrete hull technology that can support wind turbines in water depths of 45 meters or more, and has the potential to significantly reduce the cost of offshore wind.The patent titled ‘Buoy with Integrated Motion Compensation’ is the Deep CLiDAR technology developed at UMaine that promises to accelerate the development of the US offshore wind industry by providing high quality, low-cost offshore wind resource data, metocean monitoring, and ecological characterization capabilities in remote marine environments.
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