US Patent Issued to Stiesdal Offshore on Feb. 3 for "Method of assembly and installation of an offshore support structure for a wind turbine" (Danish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,601, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Stiesdal Offshore A/S (Give, Denmark).

"Method of assembly and installation of an offshore support structure for a wind turbine" was invented by Henrik Stiesdal (Odense, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the assembly of the support structure of a wind turbine, N sets of a first tubular brace and a second tubular brace extend from a tower support. For each set, the second braces are connected at one or both of their end parts by a casted connection. The first brace or the tower structure has a casting cavity for accommodating an end of the corresponding second brace. In order to assemble t...