US Patent Issued to NEXANS on Feb. 24 for "Work platform for performing a cable operation on a vessel deck" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,208, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NEXANS (Courbevoie, France).

"Work platform for performing a cable operation on a vessel deck" was invented by Johannes Lunde (Bekkestua, Norway) and Ola Ystgaard (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work platform (10) for performing a cable operation on a cable on a vessel having a vessel deck (7) has chutes (19a, 19b) for guiding the cable from the sea and onto the work platform (10), an overboarding system (18) and a number of modules (11, 12, 13, 14, 15). Each module (11, 12, 13, 14, 15) has a deck section and a support structure for supporting the deck section at a distance above...