US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI SHIPBUILDING on Feb. 3 for "Floating body for offshore wind turbine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,942, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to MITSUBISHI SHIPBUILDING Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Floating body for offshore wind turbine" was invented by Makoto Ohta (Tokyo), Kai Karikomi (Tokyo), Masao Komatsu (Yokohama, Japan), Shin Terada (Yokohama, Japan), Shingen Takeda (Yokohama, Japan), Noriyuki Manabe (Yokohama, Japan) and Shin Nakayama (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A floating body for an offshore wind turbine includes: one first column; two second columns; two lower hulls connecting the first column to each of the second columns; and a beam member connecting the two lower hulls. The beam member is disposed within...