ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,136, issued on July 22.
"Valve operating device and method of overriding a malfunctioning valve operating device" was invented by Oivind Rokne (Notodden, Norway) and Heyn Halfdan Magnus (Kongsberg, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve operating device (1) for operating a subsea valve (100), the valve operating device (1) comprises:-a housing (10);-thrust bearings (12) supported by the housing (10);-a chamber (20) within the housing (10), wherein the chamber (20) comprises a first part of a linear guide (21);-a rotational shaft (30) comprising a first end with an external interface (31) outside the chamber (20) and a second e...