ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,793, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Stemmann-Technik GmbH (Schuttorf, Germany).
"Device for connecting a ship to a land-side supply grid" was invented by Christoph Moller (Emsburen, Germany) and Pascal Teupen (Rheine, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for connecting a ship to a land-side supply grid includes a rail system having a guide channel, a cover designed to cover the guide channel and formed by a plurality of successive articulated cover plates and a land-side coupling unit mounted on the rail system for travel and designed for receiving a cable-connected ship-side plug. The coupling unit includes a lifting de...