Patents by Inventor A. Jacob Odgaard

A. Jacob Odgaard has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Vanes for bank protection and sediment control in rivers
    Patent number: 4711597
    Abstract: A flow-training structure for use in rivers and streams to minimize bank erosion, and to control bed degradation and aggradation. The structure consists of single vanes or arrays of vanes of a particular double-curved design. The vanes are installed in the river bed in designed arrays to produce changes in the local directions of the near-bed velocity, without changing the sediment-transport or flow-conveyance capacities of the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1987
    Assignee: University of Iowa Research Foundation
    Inventors: A. Jacob Odgaard, John F. Kennedy