US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A. on Nov. 4 for "Systems and methods for evaluating securing systems for floating structures using virtual sensors" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,514, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for evaluating securing systems for floating structures using virtual sensors" was invented by Aifeng Yao (Houston) and Xiaoyan Yan (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for evaluating a securing system for a floating structure, where the method includes collecting a plurality of metocean data from a plurality of metocean sensor devices during a current time period coinciding with a field operation, where the field operation is conducted from the floating structure that is stabilized by the securing system. The method can al...