US Patent Issued to KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 17 for "Buoyancy resistance pile for subsea structure installation" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,209, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (Busan, South Korea).

"Buoyancy resistance pile for subsea structure installation" was invented by Taek Hee Han (Busan, South Korea) and Seokjae Lee (Busan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a buoyancy-resistant pile for subsea structure installation, the buoyancy-resistant pile including: a pile main body having one end buried in a seabed or a concrete foundation and having a hollow portion provided therein; and a pull-out resistor coupled to pass through a side surface of the pile main body and buried in the seabed or the conc...