ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,610, issued on June 10, was assigned to ITREC B.V. (Schiedam, Netherlands).
"Feeder vessel" was invented by Joop Roodenburg (Schiedam, Netherlands) and Hubertus Lourens Leendert Tieleman (Schiedam, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feeder vessel for the onshore-to-offshore transport of elongate wind turbine objects with a motion compensating carrier assembly having a motion compensated platform for receiving and retaining the elongate object, and a motion compensation mechanism. The motion compensation mechanism includes extendable actuators which passively compensate motions of the platform out of a neutral position, and ...