F05B 2240/132
Creating a vortex or tornado effect
Official title: creating a vortex or tornado effect
F05B2240/132 (Creating a vortex or tornado effect) appears on 80 US grants and 102 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F05B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 102
- Assignees
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- Inventors
- 156
- Latest grant
- 25 Mar 2025
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| 2026 | 0 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Wave energy conversion device25 Mar 2025US 12,258,932 B2Hann-Ocean Energy Pte Ltd.
- Wind turbine blade damping device10 Sep 2024US 12,085,055 B2Lm Wind Power A/S
- Vortex station27 Aug 2024US 12,071,936 B2Auckland Uniservices Limited
- High-mass hydro rotor for hydroelectric power generation2 Apr 2024US 11,946,457 B1
- Vortex station29 Aug 2023US 11,739,731 B2Auckland Uniservices Limited
- Combined breakwater and wave energy converter3 Sep 2026US 2026/0258777 A1
- Fluid acceleration system10 Jul 2025US 2025/0223942 A1Duplicent, LLC
- Hydroelectric Turbine Device and Method of Use2 Jan 2025US 2025/0003380 A1
- Vortex station19 Dec 2024US 2024/0418150 A1Auckland Uniservices Limited
- Vortex dynamic power generation structure1 Aug 2024US 2024/0254968 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Tornado-type wind turbine86US 4,070,131 AGrumman Aerospace Corporation · 1978
- Whirlwind power system56US 4,018,543 AThe Raymond Lee Organization, Inc. · 1977
- Fluid-powered energy conversion device50US 6,518,680 B22003
- Amplified wind turbine apparatus45US 4,309,146 AThe United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 1982
- Revolving power tower41US 4,935,639 A1990