ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,030, issued on April 7, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).
"Hull-mounted installation conversion method" was invented by Tetsuya Kubota (Kobe, Japan), Tomoki Kuwabara (Kobe, Japan), Yasuyuki Haneda (Kobe, Japan), Susumu Ikeda (Kobe, Japan) and Minoru Yokoyama (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hull-mounted installation conversion method in which some or all of first-use units placed on a hull and constituting a first-use installation are removed from the hull, and then second-use units are placed on the hull to construct a second-use installation. For example, the first-use units are medical units, and th...