US Patent Issued to Vestdavit Gruppen AS on Aug. 25 for "Extendable davit arrangement" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,549, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Vestdavit Gruppen AS (Laksevag, Norway).

"Extendable davit arrangement" was invented by Atle Kalve (Hordvik, Norway) and Vikaskumar Patel (Nyborg, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a davit arrangement (1, 20) arranged suspended over one or more boats or cargo devices (B, C) onboard a ship or similar vessel for launching or storing the one or more boats or cargo devices (B, C), the davit arrangement (1, 20) comprises a davit housing (19) having telescopically displaceable davit arm (3, 4, 5) and a hoisting arrangement (6) for hoisting and lowering the one or more boa...