US Patent Issued to ITREC on May 27 for "Offshore vessel, preferably an offshore wind turbine installation vessel, a crane for providing such a vessel, and a method for using such a crane, preferably for upending a monopile" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,035, issued on May 27, was assigned to ITREC B.V. (Schiedam, Netherlands).

"Offshore vessel, preferably an offshore wind turbine installation vessel, a crane for providing such a vessel, and a method for using such a crane, preferably for upending a monopile" was invented by Joop Roodenburg (Schiedam, Netherlands) and Terence Willem August Vehmeijer (Schiedam, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An offshore wind turbine installation vessel includes a crane provided with a computerized crane control system. The computerized crane control system is linked to the slew drive, the luffing drive, and the hoisting winch of the crane,...