The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted the U.S.-based marine energy company C-Power a patent for its SeaRAY ocean energy converter.
According to C-Power, the patent, which stems from a customer-driven design process, validates the SeaRAY technology as a unique innovation in the ocean energy space.
“This is one of a number of important milestones for the SeaRAY, and we’re looking forward to announcing another key step soon,” said the company.
The SeaRAY autonomous offshore power system (AOPS) offers power, energy storage, and real-time communications for autonomous and connected ocean technologies. It supports uncrewed offshore activities and equipment, such as subsea vehicles, sensor packages, and operating equipment.
In May 2024, C-Power upgraded the SeaRAY ocean energy system, and returned it back to Marine Core Base Hawaii in Oahu , from the company’s facility in Corvallis, Oregon.
In terms of the most recent news coming from C-Power, the U.S. company got a new compatriot partner, Tiburon Subsea, a subsea data collection and delivery provider, that joined the partner engagement and co-development (PEC) program to handle subsea data collection for the upcoming SeaRAY ocean energy system demonstration.