US Patent Issued to IQIP HOLDING on Aug. 18 for "Vessel and a method of inserting a monopile into a guide" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,854, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to IQIP HOLDING B.V. (Sliedrecht, Netherlands).

"Vessel and a method of inserting a monopile into a guide" was invented by Alexander Maarten Van Der Zee (Delft, Netherlands), Jurgen Arjan Zijlmans (Barendrecht, Netherlands), Fabian Corijn Bakker (Capelle aan den Ijssel, Netherlands), Bram Van Den Berg (Lopik, Netherlands) and Jacob Osnabrugge (Scherpenzeel, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vessel comprises a hull and a guide for guiding a monopile. The guide is movably mounted to the hull and includes a receiving part and a closure part which is movable for creating a closed condition ...