ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,002, issued on March 3, was assigned to Kongsberg Ferrotech AS (Kongsberg, Norway).

"Additive manufacture system" was invented by Luis De La Torre Ugarte Del Castillo (Kongsberg, Norway) and Torgeir Braein (Kongsberg, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system (10) is provided for performing an operation on a subsea body (100), the system (10) comprises: a housing (20) configured to establish a sealed chamber around a section of the body (100); an environmental system configured to monitor and/or control an environment within the sealed chamber; and an operational tool (40) mounted to a positioning system (30) within the housing ...