ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,690, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to OneSubsea IP UK Ltd. (London).
"Modular subsea control system" was invented by Jonathan Yarnold (Houston), Ronald James Spencer (Houston), Shilpa Joshi (Houston), Mahesh Shenoy (Houston), Sonia Surmacz (Houston), Hemra Esenyyazov (Houston) and Craig Agar (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular control system for a mineral extraction system includes a first control module positioned at a first location within a riser of the mineral extraction system and a second control module positioned at a second location within the riser closer to a wellhead of the mineral extraction system than the ...