ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,127, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Gaztransport Et Technigaz (Saint-Remy-les-Chevreuse, France).
"Support device for at least one instrument on a tower for loading and/or offloading a tank of a ship intended to contain a liquefied gas" was invented by Franck Chaigneau (Saint-Remy-les-Chevreuse, France) and Florian Bardin (Saint-Remy-les-Chevreuse, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support device for an instrument on a loading/offloading tower of a tank of a ship is disclosed. The tower has multiple vertical masts linked to one another, pairwise, by struts extending on a strut axis, and a distal portion extending on a first...