US Patent Issued to SAIPEM on April 7 for "Underwater heated pipe for the transport of fluids and method for assembling such a pipe" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,870, issued on April 7, was assigned to SAIPEM S.A. (Montigny le Bretonneux, France).

"Underwater heated pipe for the transport of fluids and method for assembling such a pipe" was invented by Frederic Gentil (Montigny le Bretonneux, France), Raymond Hallot (Voisins le Bretonneux, France) and Thomas Valdenaire (Courbevoie, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heated subsea pipe and process for transporting fluids, includes a plurality of pipe sections each having a transport tube for receiving the fluids, an electrically insulating inner layer arranged around the transport tube, a sealing tube made of electrically conductive mater...