US Patent Issued to APL NORWAY AS on Sept. 30 for "System for avoiding damage to power cables to and from and within a floating offshore wind power plant" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,112, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to APL NORWAY AS (Kolbjornsvik, Norway).

"System for avoiding damage to power cables to and from and within a floating offshore wind power plant" was invented by Geir Olav Hovde (His, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for preventing damage to a power cable for electric power transmission to and from and within a floating offshore wind power plant using non-redundant mooring, after failure of a main loadbearing mooring element is described, comprising at least one power cable safety line having the following properties: It is connected to the same two wind turbines as the power cable...