US Patent Issued to MARINHUB AS on June 2 for "Offshore anchoring methods and systems" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,636, issued on June 2, was assigned to MARINHUB AS (Farstad, Norway).

"Offshore anchoring methods and systems" was invented by Rune-Andre Smenes (Farstad, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of temporarily anchoring a mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) at an offshore drilling site includes laying out anchoring assemblies at a sea floor. Each anchoring assembly has a connection unit adjacent to the drilling site, an anchor line extending away therefrom, and a sea floor anchor. The MODU is brought to the drilling site. Successively, for each connection unit, a dynamic positioning system at the MODU is operated to move the M...