US Patent Issued to DEME Offshore BE on Nov. 18 for "Lifting device provided with an auxiliary device for counteracting tipover of the boom in sudden loss of load" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,181, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to DEME Offshore BE NV (Zwijndrecht, Belgium).

"Lifting device provided with an auxiliary device for counteracting tipover of the boom in sudden loss of load" was invented by Jan Gabriel (Afsnee, Belgium) and Jeroen Vanden Branden (Olen, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a lifting device with a force-absorbing base to which a boom with hoisting cable for lifting a load in substantially vertical direction is tiltably connected. The lifting device is provided with an auxiliary device for counteracting tipover of the boom in the case of sudden loss of load. The auxiliary device is co...