ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,202, issued on June 10.
"End connection assembly and method for producing the same" was invented by Sylvain Routeau (Saint Cloud, France), Philippe Espinasse (Bihorel, France), Stein Rune Rasmussen (Kongsberg, Norway) and Juliette Stephant (Suresnes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end connection assembly (200) for pull-in and coupling of a flexible tubular pipe to an inboard hub of a subsea structure using a tie-in tool, which flexible tubular pipe comprises a plurality of superposed flexible layers (210, 214, 218) of metal materials and plastics materials, wherein the end connection assembly comprises an end fitting (202) ...