US Patent Issued to Canrig Robotic Technologies AS on Feb. 3 for "Iron roughneck with rotary actuator" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,517, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Canrig Robotic Technologies AS (Sandnes, Norway).

"Iron roughneck with rotary actuator" was invented by Tor Berge (Stavanger, Norway), Kjetil Naesgaard (Royneberg, Norway) and Roberto Gentile (Stavanger, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pipe handler that can include a wrench assembly with a backup tong and a torque wrench, and a rotary actuator coupled to the torque wrench, wherein rotation of the rotary actuator about a second axis rotates the torque wrench about a first axis. An iron roughneck that can include a torque wrench configured to rotate about a first axis, and a rotary actuator...