US Patent Issued to RWE Offshore Wind on Jan. 28 for "Method of manufacturing a connection between two tube segments of a tower-like structure" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,374, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to RWE Offshore Wind GmbH (Essen, Germany).

"Method of manufacturing a connection between two tube segments of a tower-like structure" was invented by Daniel Bartminn (Essen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for manufacturing a connection between two tube segments of a tower-like structure, in particular a wind power plant, in which a first tube segment is pushed into a second tube segment at the end face and an annular space is formed between the tube segments, two at least partially circumferential joining elements spaced apart from one another in the longitudinal direction of the t...