US Patent Issued on July 28 for "Catamaran floating offshore wind turbine transportation and installation vessel" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,840, issued on July 28.

"Catamaran floating offshore wind turbine transportation and installation vessel" was invented by E. John Greeves (Houston), Philip S. Rundle (Houston), Ian R. Todd (Houston) and Jason C. Fabre (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for installing a wind turbine in a marine environment includes the steps of transporting the wind turbine from a first location to a second location with a floating installation vessel having two spaced apart hulls with a gap between the hulls and positioning the wind turbine in the gap between the hulls. There are spaced apart bow and stem gantries spanning...