US Patent Issued to APL Norway AS on June 2 for "Motion restrictor device and system for offshore loading" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,637, issued on June 2, was assigned to APL Norway AS (Kolbjornsvik, Norway).

"Motion restrictor device and system for offshore loading" was invented by Erik Dunseth (Faervik, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motion restrictor device and system for an offshore loading arrangement is described, wherein the motion restrictor device comprises a first portion, at least two second portions protruding from opposite sides of the first portion, and a restrictive surface on the outside of the first portion, wherein the at least two second portions each comprise a protrusion at least partly extending form restriction areas between each re...