ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,334, issued on June 30, was assigned to Cabin Air Group B.V. (Joure, Netherlands).
"Factory for producing an elongated tension member, and method for constructing such a factory" was invented by Rinze Jan Van Der Schuit (Oranjewoud, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A factory for producing an elongated tension member has a buoyant body, which may be a ship with a hull and an upper deck, arranged to support at least one apparatus for producing the elongated tension member. The at least one apparatus for producing the elongated tension member has a feeder, a processing device and at least one end fitting device. The feeder is ...