US Patent Issued to IQIP HOLDING on Aug. 4 for "Pile driving device and a follower" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,611, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to IQIP HOLDING B.V. (Sliedrecht, Netherlands).

"Pile driving device and a follower" was invented by Patrick Ingmar Overkamp (Dordrecht, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pile driving device for driving a pile into the ground comprises a ram, an anvil and a sleeve. The anvil is accommodated in the sleeve and movable with respect to the sleeve in a driving direction. The ram is reciprocatingly movable with respect to the anvil in the driving direction so as to provide impact energy to the anvil under operating conditions. The anvil and the sleeve contact each other in transverse direction ...