ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,881, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to ORBITAL MARINE POWER Ltd. (Kirkwall Orkney, Great Britain).
"Mooring line connector apparatus and method" was invented by Jonathan Meason (Hagersten, Sweden), Calum Miller (Kirkwall Orkney, Great Britain) and William Annal (Kirkwall Orkney, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a connector apparatus for connecting a mooring line to a floating vessel, in which connector assemblies are cooperatively engaged and rotationally constrained. A pre-tensioning arrangement may be provided to apply a pre-tensioning force between the connector assemblies, and pivotable connection may be...