ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,497, issued on May 5, was assigned to EXAIL (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France).
"Ship comprising a system for adapting a removable module and adapted removable module" was invented by Sebastien Grall (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a base ship that can receive, in a removable and interchangeable manner, a particular module among various modules, the module being adapted to a functional specialization of the ship. The base ship is similar to a catamaran in its rear portion because it includes two parallel rear lateral volumes that are substantially symmetric with respect to a vertical longitudinal...