ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,609, issued on June 17.

"Latching of a subsea component to a subsea receptacle, associated subsea system and method" was invented by Kyle Ellis (Houston) and Christopher Kennedy (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a subsea equipment (100) and a subsea receptacle (200), a subsea system (1) comprising the subsea equipment (100) and the subsea receptacle (200) as well as a method of mounting the subsea equipment (100) to the subsea receptacle (200).The subsea equipment (100) comprising: a component body (101) configured to be received inside the subsea receptacle (200), the component body (101) extendi...