ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,030, issued on May 6, was assigned to BASSOE TECHNOLOGY AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Floating wind semi-submersible with T-shaped pontoon" was invented by Robert Ludwigsson (Gothenburg, Sweden), Markus Norberg (Storvreta, Sweden) and Yungang Liu (Partille, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A moored floating offshore wind semi-submersible platform with at least three columns characterized in that columns are supported on a T-shaped underwater hull made up of two elongated pontoons, where one pontoon is perpendicular to the other pontoon and a method that allow that the semi-submersible platform is constructed in hull-assemblies and b...