US Patent Issued to DEME Offshore BE on Nov. 4 for "Method for anchoring a hollow tubular element in a water bottom, and assembly of the tubular element and a closing body" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,367, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to DEME Offshore BE NV (Zwijndrecht, Belgium).

"Method for anchoring a hollow tubular element in a water bottom, and assembly of the tubular element and a closing body" was invented by Dieter Wim Jan Rabaut (Ghent, Belgium) and Roeland Magda Dirk De Rycker (Wilrijk, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a method for anchoring a hollow tubular element in a water bottom. An upper outer end of the tubular element is first closed substantially airtightly by a closing body. The tubular element with closing body is taken up from a vessel with a lifting means and lowered into the water in a s...