US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on Aug. 5 for "Berth for multi-purpose disaster response ship and harbor structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,740, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Berth for multi-purpose disaster response ship and harbor structure" was invented by Tetsuya Kubota (Kobe, Japan), Tomoki Kuwabara (Kobe, Japan), Yasuyuki Haneda (Kobe, Japan), Susumu Ikeda (Kobe, Japan) and Minoru Yokoyama (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A berth for a multi-purpose disaster response ship includes: a quay at which the multi-purpose disaster response ship is berthed; a building located along the quay, including at least one quay-facing gate, and sharing at least one common purpose with the multi-purpose disaster response ship; a ho...