US Patent Issued to Becker Marine Systems on Aug. 25 for "Energy-saving arrangement for twin-screw ships" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,564, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Becker Marine Systems GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Energy-saving arrangement for twin-screw ships" was invented by Henning Kuhlmann (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to create an improved arrangement to reduce the propulsion-power requirement of a twin-screw ship comprising a first propeller and a second propeller and a first guiding device and a second guiding device, wherein, in the forward direction of the watercraft, the first guiding device is arranged in front of the first propeller, and the second guiding device is arranged in front of the second propeller, wherein t...