US Patent Issued to OneSubsea AS on July 14 for "Systems and methods for subsea fluid handling" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,424, issued on July 14, was assigned to OneSubsea AS (Oslo, Norway).

"Systems and methods for subsea fluid handling" was invented by Morten Rengman Morck (Oslo, Norway), Martin Pedersen (Oslo, Norway) and Franco Attolini Smithers (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of establishing a fluid connection in a subsea petroleum production system, the method comprising: positioning a first subsea fluid handling component (4,11-17,28) having a first connector (4a, 11a, 12a, 12b,29) adjacent a second subsea fluid handling component (4,11-17,28) having a second connector (4a, 11a, 12a, 12b,29), the first and/or second connecto...