ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,947, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Deep Reach Technology Inc. (Stafford, Texas).
"Installation system and method for an offshore wind turbine" was invented by Shukai Wu (Katy, Texas) and John Halkyard (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for horizontally mating an offshore wind turbine generator assembly, typically including a tower and wind turbine nacelle and blades, with a substructure platform to form an integrated substructure unit, wet towing the unit to installation site offshore, and then installing the unit independent of cranes and derricks."
The patent was filed on Aug. 4, 2022, under Application...