ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,759, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SUBSEA 7 Ltd. (Sutton, Great Britain).
"Mounting equipment on wind turbine structures" was invented by Dominic Pliszka (Aberdeen, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support system arranged to support equipment such as electrolysers externally on a wind turbine. A hub encircling or coextensive with a tower or transition piece of the wind turbine surrounds a central vertical axis. The hub defines at least one docking bay having mounting formations to which a support module can be releasably engaged, thereby providing an equipment platform cantilevered from the hub. Where the hub compris...