US Patent Issued to SAIPEM on April 21 for "Unmanned underwater vehicle and system for the maintenance and inspection of underwater facilities and method of managing a tether to supply power and to control said underwater vehicle" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,285, issued on April 21, was assigned to SAIPEM S.P.A. (Milan).

"Unmanned underwater vehicle and system for the maintenance and inspection of underwater facilities and method of managing a tether to supply power and to control said underwater vehicle" was invented by Alberto Serena (Milan), Giovanni Massari (Milan) and Diego Lazzarin (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned underwater vehicle for the maintenance and inspection of permanent underwater installations has a frame; a plurality of motorized thrusters directable to navigate in a body of water; a tether to supply power and control the underwater vehicle from a remo...