ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,879, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to PETROLEO BRASILEIRO S.A.-PETROBRAS (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
"Subsea termination device and method" was invented by Ygor Fernandes Dos Santos Manhaes Correa (Macae, Brazil), Douglas Oliveira Correa De Souza (Macae, Brazil) and Andre Luiz Bevilaqua Santana (Macae, Brazil).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for actuation in the subsea environment, precisely in the termination, maintenance, repair or re-termination of umbilical cables through an ROV. By means of the proposed device, it becomes possible to correct the termination of subsea umbilicals without having to proceed with a saturation di...