US Patent Issued to Ampelmann Holding on Jan. 20 for "Telescopic gangway, a motion compensated gangway and a vessel" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,562, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Ampelmann Holding B.V. (Delft, Netherlands).

"Telescopic gangway, a motion compensated gangway and a vessel" was invented by Martijn Paulus Maria Krutzen (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A telescopic gangway, comprising a main gangway part and a telescoping gangway part that is telescopable with respect to the main gangway in a longitudinal direction. The gangway comprises a hoisting mechanism provided with a telescoping decoupling mechanism for compensating a variation of the wire end portion length caused by a telescoping movement of the telescoping gangway."

The patent was...