US Patent Issued to DEME Offshore BE on April 22 for "Device and method for mounting a wind turbine component on a wind turbine tower" (Dutch, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,635, issued on April 22, was assigned to DEME Offshore BE NV (Zwijndrecht, Belgium).

"Device and method for mounting a wind turbine component on a wind turbine tower" was invented by Dieter Wim Jan Rabaut (Ghent, Belgium) and Victor Alexander Hanenburg (Rotterdam, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a device for placing a component of a wind turbine on a wind turbine tower. The device includes a hoisting frame which is suspended from a hoisting hook of a hoisting means, and which is provided with take-up cables whereby the component is taken up in the hoisting frame. The hoisting frame is embodied such that in a fi...