ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,241, issued on April 14, was assigned to Baker Hughes Energy Technology UK Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Subsea heat bank with PCM heat storing member" was invented by William Joseph Antel (Aberdeenshire, Great Britain) and Emad Gharaibah (Akershus Hovik, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A subsea heat bank for thermally insulating one or more elements of a subsea installation. The heat bank comprises an external casing enclosing an internal space, one or more elements of the subsea installation received in the internal space and arranged such that seawater in the internal space surrounds them, and at least one heat storing me...