US Patent Issued to DEME Offshore BE on March 18 for "Device and method for placing a component of a wind turbine" (Dutch, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,059, issued on March 18, was assigned to DEME Offshore BE NV (Zwijndrecht, Belgium).

"Device and method for placing a component of a wind turbine" was invented by Dieter Wim Jan Rabaut (Ghent, Belgium) and Victor 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 means with a hoisting cable for taking up the component. A positioning tool is connected to the hoisting cable by means of an intermediately arranged intermediate construction which forms part of the positioning tool. A guide frame of the pos...