ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,180, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ITREC B.V. (Schiedam, Netherlands).
"Crane housing, crane, jack-up vessel, method" was invented by Hendrikus Jacobus Weterings (Schiedam, Netherlands) and Wing Sum Lee (Schiedam, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crane housing for a leg encircling crane to be mounted onto a slew bearing includes an annular base component, two support components, and a frontal component, each having bulkheads. The support components are connected to the annular base component at respective lateral sides of a front segment thereof. The frontal component is connected to the front segment of the annular ...