9. MARINE ENERGY CORPORATION PATENTs 1 to 3

1. US Patent 6899049 - Apparatus and Method of Constructing Offshore Platforms - May 31, 2005.

• A flat plate spar buoy with a counterweight supported by a column. 
• The counterweight can be optionally retracted to the bottom of the spar hull allowing the spar  to be  towed in shallow water and on and off Heavy Lift Vessels (HLVs), etc.
• The counterweight can be lowered by flooding at or near its install
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2. US Patent 7215036 - Current Power Generator - May 8, 2007

This invention uses a frame:

• which can support multiple submerged current turbine generators which can weathervane into the current and optionally have funnels to increase current velocity over rotors.
• which is not visible above water.
• which will not interfere with normal small craft traffic.
• which is below storm waves.
• which can optionally su
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3. US Patent 7287935 - Tendon Assembly For Mooring Offshore Structures -October 30, 2007

A low-cost mooring system:

• which can be used to anchor most deep-water floaters.
• uses at least one vertical mooring leg to a near seabed counterweight which is laterally supported by one or more piles.
• whose vertical mooring legs can  support vertical risers and umbilicals eliminating VIV suppression systems.
• whose