ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,555, issued on July 15, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).
"Subsea wellhead system fatigue damage monitoring" was invented by Wangming Lu (Katy, Texas), William Penaloza (The Woodlands, Texas), Brian Koons (Huntsville, Texas) and Thomas Chase (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system, method, and computer-readable medium includes a fatigue tracking service that assists with monitoring fatigue damage in a subsea wellhead system. The fatigue tracking service uses historical environmental data to determine a fatigue damage rate. The fatigue tracking service determines a fatigue allowance based upon...