US Patent Issued to DEME Offshore BE on Sept. 30 for "Lifting system and method for taking up an elongated object" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,111, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to DEME Offshore BE NV (Zwijndrecht, Belgium).

"Lifting system and method for taking up an elongated object" was invented by Jan Maria Koen Michielsen (Antwerp, Belgium), Kenneth Gerard Vannieuwenhuyse (Sint-Amandsberg, Belgium), Franky Ecran (Schelle, Belgium) and Dieter Wim Jan Rabaut (Ghent, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a lifting system for taking up an elongate object from a deck of a vessel. The lifting system has a crane arm which is connected to the deck and from which is suspended a take-up frame to which the elongate object can be attached. Also present is a winch...