Patents Assigned to Tau Tech AS
  • Harvesting system and method for bottom-dwelling marine organisms
    Patent number: 12171206
    Abstract: A harvesting unit with one or more pumps including one or more suction nozzles directed towards the seabed, one or more inlets that lead from the suction nozzle to the pump, an outlet to a sorting device, one or more motors for driving the one or more pumps, where the sorting device, which at least separates bottom-dwelling marine organisms from bycatch and foreign bodies, has an outlet for bottom-dwelling marine organisms leading to a collecting unit, a structural main frame that carries at least the harvesting unit, and a towing and launching system for deployment and propulsion of the harvesting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Tau Tech AS
    Inventors: Øystein Tvedt, Bernt Rogne, Bjørn Roppen, Sverre Olav Farstad, Jan Rogne, Karl Fredrik Sandvik
  • Fishing tool for bottom-dwelling marine organisms, for fishing Iceland scallops, other scallops and potentially other bottom species such as sea cucumbers, sea urchins, other types of shellfish and species of crab
    Patent number: 11547103
    Abstract: A harvesting unit with one or more pumps including one or more suction nozzles directed towards the seabed, one or more inlets that lead from the suction nozzle to the pump, an outlet to a sorting device, one or more motors for driving the one or more pumps, where the sorting device, which at least separates shellfish from bycatch and foreign bodies, has an outlet for shellfish leading to a collecting unit, a structural main frame that carries at least the harvesting unit, and a towing and launching system for deployment and propulsion of the harvesting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Tau Tech AS
    Inventors: Øystein Tvedt, Bernt Rogne, Bjørn Roppen, Sverre Olav Farstad, Jan Rogne, Karl Fredrik Sandvik