US Patent Issued to DEME Offshore BE on Jan. 20 for "Method for lifting an object from a vessel deck" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,671, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to DEME Offshore BE NV (Zwijndrecht, Belgium).

"Method for lifting an object from a vessel deck" was invented by Florian Uwe Stempinski (Melsele, Belgium), Benjamin Ward Baert (Vichte, Belgium) and Kenneth Gerard Vannieuwenhuyse (Sint-Amandsberg, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a method for lifting an object from a vessel deck. A hoisting means present on the vessel deck is provided with a hoisting cable to which an attaching means for the object is coupled. The object is connected to the attaching means and then taken up and displaced relative to the vessel deck using the atta...