US Patent Issued to TRELLEBORG RIDDERKERK on Oct. 28 for "Method for building a sealed structure comprising two tubular members, a sealed structure, an offshore wind turbine and a sealing system" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,009, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TRELLEBORG RIDDERKERK B.V. (Ridderkerk, Netherlands).

"Method for building a sealed structure comprising two tubular members, a sealed structure, an offshore wind turbine and a sealing system" was invented by Leendert Jurriaan Van Den Berg (Ridderkerk, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing system for use in an offshore wind turbine includes two interconnected tubular members, and a flexible sealing member. The flexible sealing member includes, seen in cross section: an annular attachment part; an annular strip shaped sealing part which is connected to said attachment part by mean...