US Patent Issued to Stiesdal Offshore on May 20 for "Method of assembling a tubular floating structure and its use" (Danish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,600, issued on May 20, was assigned to Stiesdal Offshore A/S (Give, Denmark).

"Method of assembling a tubular floating structure and its use" was invented by Henrik Stiesdal (Odense C, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first and a second tubular member are welded to opposite sides of a stiffening ring in order to obtain a double-segment. Further segments can be added to form a tubular multi-segment with stiffening rings in between adjacent tubular members. The resulting multi-segment is used as a tubular buoyancy module in a floating offshore structure."

The patent was filed on Jan. 23, 2025, under Application No. 19/034,856....