US Patent Issued to MINCON INTERNATIONAL on June 23 for "Hydraulic down-the-hole hammer and subsea pile" (Irish, American, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,880, issued on June 23, was assigned to MINCON INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (Shannon, Ireland).

"Hydraulic down-the-hole hammer and subsea pile" was invented by Markku Keskiniva (Ylinin, Finland), Joseph Purcell (Ennis, Ireland) and Simon Duck (Monroe, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method and system for installing a load-bearing element in a seabed, a method and system for installing a subsea anchor on a seabed, a subsea pile and a subsea anchor."

The patent was filed on April 28, 2022, under Application No. 18/288,494.

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