ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,370, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SEARES S.R.L. (Pisa, Italy).
"Anchoring device" was invented by Giorgio Cuce' (Leghorn, Italy), Corrado Taviani (Fucecchio, Italy), Alessandro Burchianti (Saline di Volterra, Italy), Marco Bartalucci (Castelfranco di Sotto, Italy) and Nicola Sgambelluri (Pisa, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anchoring device for anchoring a floating object to an anchor structure, including a first attachment for being constrained to the floating object; a second attachment for being constrained to the anchor structure; a damping member for damping the relative motion between the attachments for securing...