Patents by Inventor Blake Craig BOREN

Blake Craig BOREN 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).

  • Flexible wave energy converter
    Patent number: 11815060
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are flexible wave energy converters that actuate electrical generators with dynamic strain (e.g., flexing, stretching, twisting, distension) to convert wave energy to electrical energy. The flexible wave energy converter utilizes flexible electric generators embedded throughout the wave-energy converter's flexible body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Blake Craig Boren, Jochem Weber
  • FLEXIBLE WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER
    Publication number: 20220403811
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are flexible wave energy converters that actuate electrical generators with dynamic strain (e.g., flexing, stretching, twisting, distension) to convert wave energy to electrical energy. The flexible wave energy converter utilizes flexible electric generators embedded throughout the wave-energy converter's flexible body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Blake Craig BOREN, Jochem WEBER
  • Electric machines as motors and power generators
    Patent number: 11522469
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for electrostatic machines which can act as both an electric motor, converting electrical energy to mechanical energy, and an electric generator, converting mechanical energy to electrical energy, are described. In some embodiments, a spring positioned between two oppositely charged plates may be used as an electric motor and/or electric generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Panagiotis George Datskos, Jochem Weber, Blake Craig Boren
  • Flexible wave energy converter
    Patent number: 11401910
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are flexible wave energy converters that actuate electrical generators with dynamic strain (e.g., flexing, stretching, twisting, distension) to convert wave energy to electrical energy. The flexible wave energy converter utilizes flexible electric generators embedded throughout the wave-energy converter's flexible body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Blake Craig Boren, Jochem Weber
  • ELECTRIC MACHINES AS MOTORS AND POWER GENERATORS
    Publication number: 20210175821
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for electrostatic machines which can act as both an electric motor, converting electrical energy to mechanical energy, and an electric generator, converting mechanical energy to electrical energy, are described. In some embodiments, a spring positioned between two oppositely charged plates may be used as an electric motor and/or electric generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Panagiotis George DATSKOS, Jochem WEBER, Blake Craig BOREN
  • FLEXIBLE WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER
    Publication number: 20210054820
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are flexible wave energy converters that actuate electrical generators with dynamic strain (e.g., flexing, stretching, twisting, distension) to convert wave energy to electrical energy. The flexible wave energy converter utilizes flexible electric generators embedded throughout the wave-energy converter's flexible body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Blake Craig BOREN, Jochem WEBER