US Patent Issued to ITREC on May 26 for "Marine crane and offshore vessel" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,334, issued on May 26, was assigned to ITREC B.V. (Schiedam, Netherlands).

"Marine crane and offshore vessel" was invented by Joop Roodenburg (Schiedam, Netherlands) and Diederick Bernardus Wijning (Schiedam, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine slewing pedestal crane includes a boom provided with a jib having a jib-arm. The jib includes a jib base pivotally connected to a jib-axle to allow a pivotal movement of the jib with respect to the boom. The crane includes a jib positioning assembly adapted to position the jib arm and to actuate the movement of the jib arm. The jib arm positioning assembly includes a jib arm con...