US Patent Issued to SIEMENS ENERGY AS on April 7 for "Subsea cable system and method" (Norwegian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,536, issued on April 7, was assigned to SIEMENS ENERGY AS (Oslo, Norway).

"Subsea cable system and method" was invented by Gaute Skjelbred Furu (Oslo, Norway), Helyson Parente (Lade, Norway) and Christopher Plant (Lancaster, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A subsea cable repair system comprises a first wet mate connector part (11) and a second wet mate connector part (14). The first and second wet mate connector parts comprise a receptacle and a plug. Separate lengths of oil filled hose (12) are attached to one end of each of the first and second connector parts (11, 14) and a cable termination (13) is attached to the ot...