US Patent Issued to Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras on July 21 for "Resident subsea pig launcher and receiver station" (Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,251, issued on July 21, was assigned to Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

"Resident subsea pig launcher and receiver station" was invented by Gustavo Carvalheira Mazzei (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Carlos Alexandre Pereira Patusco (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Pedro Nogueira Addor (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Jeter Pacheco De Freitas (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Camila Do Nascimento Gomes (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Daniel Pozzani (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Fernando Borja Pereira (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention proposes a resident station of launching and receiving subsea p...