Patents by Inventor Richard J.A. Gayton

Richard J.A. Gayton 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).

  • Patent number: 10364008
    Abstract: A watercraft immobilizing apparatus and system for a marine vessel to passively defend against an attacking engine-powered watercraft includes a towed array of entanglement lines. The entanglement lines can be provided on and administered from reusable/removable/replaceable storage cartridges mountable on a hull mount or stowed in a watertight chamber in the vessel's hull, and/or deployed via floated booms and/or paravanes to foul and immobilize propellers and engine cooling water intakes of encroaching watercraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Inventor: Richard J. A. Gayton
  • Publication number: 20180201349
    Abstract: A watercraft immobilizing apparatus and system for a marine vessel to passively defend against an attacking engine-powered watercraft includes a towed array of entanglement lines. The entanglement lines can be provided on and administered from reusable/removable/replaceable storage cartridges mountable on a hull mount or stowed in a watertight chamber in the vessel's hull, and/or deployed via floated booms and/or paravanes to foul and immobilize propellers and engine cooling water intakes of encroaching watercraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventor: Richard J. A. Gayton
  • Publication number: 20170183070
    Abstract: A watercraft immobilizing apparatus and system for a marine vessel to passively defend against an attacking engine-powered watercraft includes a towed array of entanglement lines. The entanglement lines can be provided on and administered from removable/replaceable storage cartridges mountable on and/or deployed via davits, outriggers, paravanes, and/or weighted submersible rollers to foul and immobilize propellers and engine cooling water intakes of encroaching watercraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventor: Richard J. A. Gayton
  • Patent number: 9517822
    Abstract: A watercraft immobilizing apparatus and system for a marine vessel to passively defend against an attacking engine-powered watercraft includes a towed array of entanglement lines. The entanglement lines can be provided on and administered from removable/replaceable storage cartridges mountable on and/or deployed via davits, outriggers, paravanes, and/or weighted submersible rollers to foul and immobilize propellers and engine cooling water intakes of encroaching watercraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Inventor: Richard J. A. Gayton
  • Publication number: 20140299031
    Abstract: A watercraft immobilizing apparatus and system for a marine vessel to passively defend against an attacking engine-powered watercraft includes a towed array of entanglement lines. The entanglement lines can be provided on and administered from removable/replaceable storage cartridges mountable on and/or deployed via davits, outriggers, paravanes, and/or weighted submersible rollers to foul and immobilize propellers and engine cooling water intakes of encroaching watercraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventor: Richard J. A. Gayton
  • Patent number: 8776710
    Abstract: A watercraft immobilizing apparatus and system for a marine vessel to passively defend against an attacking engine-powered watercraft includes a towed array of entanglement lines. The entanglement lines can be provided on and administered from removable/replaceable storage cartridges mountable on and/or deployed via davits, outriggers, paravanes, and/or weighted submersible rollers to foul and immobilize propellers and engine cooling water intakes of encroaching watercraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Inventor: Richard J. A. Gayton
  • Patent number: 8176867
    Abstract: A watercraft immobilizing apparatus and system deployable from a marine vessel to passively defend against an attacking watercraft includes a towed array of entanglement lines. The entanglement lines can be stored on and supplied from one or more storage cartridges mountable on and deployed via outriggers and submersible rollers to foul and immobilize propellers and engine cooling intakes of attacking watercraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Inventor: Richard J.A. Gayton
  • Publication number: 20120103241
    Abstract: A watercraft immobilizing apparatus and system for a marine vessel to passively defend against an attacking engine-powered watercraft includes a towed array of entanglement lines. The entanglement lines can be provided on and administered from removable/replaceable storage cartridges mountable on and/or deployed via davits, outriggers, paravanes, and/or weighted submersible rollers to foul and immobilize propellers and engine cooling water intakes of encroaching watercraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventor: Richard J. A. Gayton
  • Publication number: 20100300346
    Abstract: A sub-surface watercraft immobilizing system and method which may be deployed from any vessel to provide primary passive defense against one or more attacking watercraft(s), fitted with marine engine(s). The system is designed to provide practical all round coverage and consists of a sub-surface towed array/entanglement system of wires and/or spectra/nylon lines weighted for neutral buoyancy, deployed from removable/replaceable cartridges that may be disposable or refurbished. The towed array/entanglement system uses outriggers, weighted submersible rollers and spreaders. A system of secondary and possibly tertiary tentacles is deployed from the primary lines just below the water surface to foul and immobilize propellers and engine cooling water intakes. This is a non-lethal system designed to render one or more detected, or undetected, attacking watercraft inoperative or ineffective.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Richard J.A. Gayton