US Patent Issued to TechnipFMC Norge AS on July 14 for "Guide rod" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,423, issued on July 14, was assigned to TechnipFMC Norge AS (Kongsberg, Norway).

"Guide rod" was invented by Goran Sundqvist (Kongsberg, Norway) and Lasse Mold-Estad (Kongsberg, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guide rod for guiding two subsea components together. The guide rod comprises a hollow and cylindrical element being and comprising a first circumferential shoulder towards a first end, a second circumferential shoulder towards an opposite second end, and a plurality of openings extending radially through the element and axially along the element, the plurality of openings forming elongate flexible sections of the eleme...