US Patent Issued to Vetco Gray Scandinavia AS on July 28 for "Multi valve electrical actuator" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,957, issued on July 28, was assigned to Vetco Gray Scandinavia AS (Stavanger, Norway).

"Multi valve electrical actuator" was invented by Steinar Lindemann Hestetun (Billingstad, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a subsea manifold valve actuator, with a rotary actuator rotating a drive gear and a linear actuator shifting the drive gear linearly between different positions in mesh with different driven gears, each operating a valve of a subsea manifold for oil and gas. A valve actuator controller is connected to the rotary actuator and the linear actuator. Furthermore methods for operating and insta...