US Patent Issued to Seaway 7 Engineering on July 28 for "Installing equipment in offshore monopile foundations" (British, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,838, issued on July 28, was assigned to Seaway 7 Engineering B.V. (Zoetermeer, Netherlands).

"Installing equipment in offshore monopile foundations" was invented by Alan John Macleay (Aberdeenshire, Great Britain), Nicolas Houdeville (Paris) and David John Down (Essex, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An equipment canister for supporting and enclosing electrical equipment of a wind turbine comprises a housing defining or containing at least one internal platform for supporting the equipment; a lifting interface on a top of the housing; an at least one support formation positioned on or projecting laterally beyond a side w...