Waveberg™ Intellectual Property



	Waveberg™ Development Limited
	Waveberg ~ Energy from Waves™ Intellectual Property Three issued US Patents protect the technology. The latest, US 6,045,339, will not expire until 2018. John Berg, the inventor, has licensed these rights to Waveberg Development. Although these patents are restricted to the USA, successive improvements in the design have each proven patentable.


“The potential markets for the Waveberg are large — Return-on-investment calculations yield almost a 22% annual return”	Paul Wegener filed a provisional patent covering the use of hydrofoils and other flow-capturing shapes to translate the forward movement of the waves to useable energy in 2005; this patent was granted in the US as number 7,770,390. Half the energy of waves is present as the kinetic energy of the moving water, so the invention could increase the output of any wave energy harvester which uses floatation. There are already several further improvements to the technology, which will be patented worldwide following prototype development and testing. The company will also patent around the invention, making it difficult to copy; there are innumerable details concerning deployment and construction of the system that can be protected. While others may imitate the system with either less efficient or more cumbersome methods, through continued refinements we will maintain the proprietary “preferred embodiment.”	History Resources Video Contact Site Map Home
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