ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,125, issued on March 24, was assigned to T.EN LOADING SYSTEMS (Sens, France).
"Marine loading system with automatic movement control, and associated method" was invented by Stephane Paquet (Voisines, France) and Pascal Montcourant (Lixy, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a marine loading system including: an arm having a coupling system for connection to a target manifold for fluid transfer, the manifold and a target located adjacent to the manifold each having tracking means designed to make it possible to determine a relative position; actuators for controlling the movement of the arm in space; optical...