US Patent Issued to SAIPEM on July 14 for "Device for guiding and vertically holding a monopile and method for installing a monopile using such a device" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,255, issued on July 14, was assigned to SAIPEM S.A. (Montigny le Bretonneux, France).

"Device for guiding and vertically holding a monopile and method for installing a monopile using such a device" was invented by Yves Dubreuil (Montigny le Bretonneux, France), Luca Donadi (Montigny le Bretonneux, France) and Bertrand Brisset (Montigny le Bretonneux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device is for guiding and vertically maintaining a tubular monopile when it is placed in an excavation made in a seabed, filled with compacted granular materials and consolidated by a metal reinforcement tube. The device includes a support structur...