ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,067, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to HOLLAND MARINE PROJECTS B.V. (Emmeloord, Netherlands).
"Method for retrieving an object exposed to a body of water" was invented by Ewoud Hendrik Visser (Emmeloord, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for retrieving an object exposed to a body of water. The freezing of water is a very power- and time-consuming operation and therefore, can be quite costly. To reduce at least one of these problems, an aqueous viscous mass is provided in a zone adjacent to an outer section of an object, and then the mass is frozen to the object. In some implementations, a thermal conductivity-promoti...