US Patent Issued to Ampelmann Holding on Feb. 17 for "Telescopic gangway, a motion compensated gangway, a vessel, an offshore structure, and a method" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,498, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Ampelmann Holding B.V. (Delft, Netherlands).

"Telescopic gangway, a motion compensated gangway, a vessel, an offshore structure, and a method" was invented by Marijn Jaap Anton Maria Hooghoudt (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A telescopic gangway, comprising a telescopable first and second gangway part, such as a telescoping boom and main boom. The first gangway part has a first walkboard, such as a first grating, and the second gangway part has a second walkboard, such as a second grating, that partially overlaps the first walkboard. The gangway further comprises an angled st...