ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,997, issued on March 4, was assigned to ADP Clear Pte Ltd. (Singapore).
"System and a process for monitoring and verifying bunker fuel exchange between marine vessels" was invented by Alistair Cross (Hermance, Switzerland) and Tyler Baron (Bursins, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring and verifying a delivery process during which a fluid is delivered, via a bunker line, from a supplying marine vessel to a receiving marine vessel is disclosed. A data capture device comprises a measurement apparatus configured to measure one or more parameters related to the delivery process, such as a mass flow rate of th...