ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,548, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to DeepOcean AS (Haugesund, Norway).
"Pumping operations using underwater vehicles" was invented by Vegard Vaga (Forresfjorden, Norway), Joar Storksen (Haugesund, Norway) and Vidar Gressvoll Berge (Kolnes, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote operated underwater vehicle, ROV, is provided, where the ROV includes at least one extendible pair of tubulars supported on the ROV, the one tubular of the pair being movable longitudinally relative to the other tubular of the pair, for extending a combined reach of the tubulars; and at least one pump connected to the tubulars, the pump being operab...