ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,276, issued on April 21, was assigned to EQUINOR ENERGY AS (Stavanger, Norway).
"Mooring system for floating wind turbine" was invented by Bjorn Skaare (Trondheim, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wind turbine system including a rotationally asymmetric floating wind turbine installation and a rotationally asymmetric mooring system connected to the floating wind turbine installation. The mooring system includes a number of mooring lines connected, directly or indirectly, to the floating wind turbine installation such that the mooring system has a lower yaw stiffness when a wind acting on the wind turbine installation comes fro...