US Patent Issued to Heerema Marine Contractors Nederland on Feb. 4 for "Assembly and method for installing a pile into a seabed" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,004, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Heerema Marine Contractors Nederland SE (Leiden, Netherlands).

"Assembly and method for installing a pile into a seabed" was invented by Gerardus Petrus Meskers (Leiden, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an assembly for installing a pile in a seabed, the assembly comprising a vessel comprising a positioning system for keeping the vessel at an installation location relative to the seabed, the positioning system having a positioning stiffness; a pile guiding system configured to guide the pile during installation thereof, the pile guiding system comprising ...