US 12,083,564 B2
Sequestering biomass in water
Luke Gray, Exeter, NH (US); and Alexander Slocum, Bow, NH (US)
Assigned to Aliquam Holding, LLC, Doral, FL (US)
Appl. No. 17/414,166
Filed by Aliquam Holding, LLC, Doral, FL (US)
PCT Filed Dec. 23, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/068295
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 15, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/132673, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 25, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/870,428, filed on Jul. 3, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/820,088, filed on Mar. 18, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/783,740, filed on Dec. 21, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0080480 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. B09B 1/00 (2006.01); A01D 44/00 (2006.01); B63B 35/32 (2006.01)
CPC B09B 1/002 (2013.01) [A01D 44/00 (2013.01); B63B 35/32 (2013.01)] 28 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for sequestering seaweed in a body of water by changing buoyancy, wherein, in operation, the apparatus causes said seaweed to transition from having a positive buoyancy to a negative buoyancy, wherein the apparatus comprises a pump and a hose, wherein, in operation, said pump is at the water's surface and said hose extends to below a critical depth, said critical depth being a depth that ensures that, as a result of having undergone said transition, said seaweed will remain below a mixed layer of said body of water and said pump pumps said seaweed from said surface of said body of water to said critical depth.