ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,635, issued on April 7, was assigned to ITREC B.V. (Schiedam, Netherlands).
"Offshore pile installation method and system" was invented by Matthijs Michiel Stofregen (Schiedam, Netherlands), Terence Willem August Vehmeijer (Schiedam, Netherlands) and Marc Louis Brinkman (Schiedam, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for pile installation wherein use is made of a vessel for pile installation. A pile holding system is mounted to the hull of a vessel, e.g. on deck (2) of a vessel, which pile holding system is configured to hold the pile in an upright orientation at a pile installation location at least whilst suspended f...