A U.S. Patent for floating offshore wind research at the UMaine Advanced Structures and Composites Center has been issued. The U.S. Patent Application No. 13/883,652 titled “Floating Hybrid Composite Wind Turbine Platform and Tower System,” was approved, and the U.S. Patent Office issued U.S. Patent No. 9,518,564 on December 13, 2016. This is the Center’s 34th patent. The inventors are read more Floating Offshore Wind Patent Issued