ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,967, issued on March 17, was assigned to ONESUBSEA AS (Lysaker, Norway).

"Modular subsea manifold system" was invented by Martin Pedersen (Oslo, Norway), Viktor Grennberg (Oslo, Norway), Morten Rengman Moerck (Oslo, Norway), Ernst Cederstroem (Linkoeping, Sweden), Rolf Barfod Schueller (Droebak, Norway), Martin Helgen (Lommedalen, Norway), Marcelo Maldaner (Curitiba Parana, Brazil), Swapnil Pasalkar (Pune, India), Brynjulf Spalder (Asker, Norway) and Shelly Holmesland (Nesbru, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular manifold system for connection to a header pipe. The modular manifold system includes a central hub which has ...