US Patent Issued to TechnipFMC Subsea France on Aug. 11 for "Flexible fluid transport pipe and associated methods" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,207, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TechnipFMC Subsea France (France).

"Flexible fluid transport pipe and associated methods" was invented by Alexandre Damiens (Berville, France), Thomas Epsztein (Rouen, France) and Marcelo Miyazaki (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible pipe designed to transport fluids that includes, from the interior toward the exterior: an internal tubular sheath with an axis (A-A') defining an internal passage for fluid circulation; a composite reinforcing structure applied around the tubular sheath and connected to the tubular sheath; at least one sealing layer made of thermoplastic material appli...