US Patent Issued to GBA Marine AS on June 23 for "Liquid loading assembly for filling a ship-hold or tank" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,364, issued on June 23, was assigned to GBA Marine AS (Kolbjornsvik, Norway).

"Liquid loading assembly for filling a ship-hold or tank" was invented by Rune Bo (Arendal, Norway) and Helge K. Aasen (Kolbjornsvik, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid loading assembly for filling a ship-hold or tank with a volatile liquid, includes an oil supply conduit, fluidly connected to the tank, the outlet end of said conduit extending vertically within a dropline. The dropline extends from a lower dropline end positioned below the outlet end of the oil supply conduit to an upper dropline end positioned above the outlet end of the oil su...