US Patent Issued to Oceaneering International on Sept. 15 for "Sealing member for repairing a pipeline and method of use" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,157, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Oceaneering International Inc. (Houston).

"Sealing member for repairing a pipeline and method of use" was invented by Abhineet Gupta (East Delhi, India), Pardeep Kumar Kaundai (Punjab, India), Ashish Negi (Punjab, India), Nilesh Patil (Pune, India), Vikrant Verma (Haryana, India) and Douglas Allen Watkins (Magnolia, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Seal assembly 100, useful for repairing an uncontrolled surface such as pipeline 110, comprises seal 102 which is subjected to pressure and temperature and remains operable under, e.g., subsea conditions. Seal assembly 100 is capable of sealing...