US Patent Issued to Orsted Wind Power on Sept. 30 for "Method of installing a foundation and a foundation for a structure" (Danish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,796, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Orsted Wind Power A/S (Fredericia, Denmark).

"Method of installing a foundation and a foundation for a structure" was invented by Jens Schupp (Gentofte, Denmark), Jan Pedersen (Fredericia, Denmark) and Jens Gengenbach (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of installing a foundation (1) for a structure. The foundation body (2) has a toe (7) at its distal end which defines an aperture into an internal cavity (12) defined by an inner wall (8). Fluid is jetted from a plurality of nozzles (9) to direct fluid distally into the soil (5) ahead of the toe (7) during installation. A...