US Patent Issued to MAERSK on March 4 for "Air supply system for a hull of a vessel and a vessel comprising the air supply system" (Danish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,563, issued on March 4, was assigned to MAERSK A/S (Copenhagen K, Denmark).

"Air supply system for a hull of a vessel and a vessel comprising the air supply system" was invented by Mikkel Preem (Ballerup, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an air supply system (100) for supplying air to an outside of a hull (201) of a vessel (200). The vessel comprises an engine. The air supply system comprises one or more turbocharger(s) (10) for supplying a compressed main air flow to the engine of the vessel via a respective first flow path (11A). The air supply system comprises an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system for recirc...