US Patent Issued to TechnipFMC Norge AS on Aug. 4 for "Subsea actuation system with retrievable position indicator" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,689, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TechnipFMC Norge AS (Kongsberg, Norway).

"Subsea actuation system with retrievable position indicator" was invented by Oyvind Rokne (Kongsberg, Norway) and Deviprasad M S Bhat (Kongsberg, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A subsea actuation system with a, at least partly, retrievable position indicator is disclosed. The subsea actuation system being connectable to a subsea structure with a valve with a rising valve stem, the rising valve stem comprising a rotation-to-linear mechanism for operating the valve, the subsea actuation system comprising an interface for receiving rotational input fr...