US Patent Issued to GB Ocean AS on Oct. 27 for "Containment boom, system, and method for confining an oil spill" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,574, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to GB Ocean AS (Mandal, Norway).

"Containment boom, system, and method for confining an oil spill" was invented by Per Martin Helland (Mandal, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A containment boom is for confining an oil spill within a restricted area on a water surface, wherein the containment boom has an openable link and connection means for connecting the containment boom at each side of the link to separate towing vessels. A system is for confining an oil spill having the containment boom and a storage means for storing the containment boom, wherein the storage means is configured to be si...