ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,794, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Baker Hughes Energy Technology UK Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Gripping body" was invented by Linfa Zhu (Katy, Texas), Zhimin Tan (Katy, Texas), Everton Vieira de Almeida (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Andrew Roberts (Ouston, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for locating respective end regions of wires of an armour layer of a segment of flexible pipe body at a respective desired positions in an end fitting, and apparatus for terminating a segment of flexible pipe body in an end fitting are disclosed. The method comprises providing an annular element radially ...