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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2023
Modec America, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Hao Yu, Katy, TX (US);
Arun Sanjay Duggal, Houston, TX (US);
Stephen P. Lindblade, Waller, TX (US);
Sjoerd Jan Wichers, Spring, TX (US);
Yonghui Liu, Houston, TX (US);
Yu Ding, Houston, TX (US);
Dipak Jayvant Chavda, Sugar Land, TX (US);
MODEC AMERICA, INC., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A mooring system for mooring a vessel floating on a surface of a body of water. In some embodiments, the system can include a base structure configured to be secured to a seabed, a yoke configured to be pivotably connected at a first end to the base structure about an axis of the base structure, a weight connected to the yoke, a turntable that can include a rotating part configured to be disposed on the vessel and a fixed part, a link arm that can include a first end configured to be connected to a second end of the yoke and/or the weight and a second end configured to be connected to the fixed part of the turntable such that the vessel is rotatable with respect to the link arm about a central axis of the turntable.