US Patent Issued to ELECTRICAL SUBSEA & DRILLING AS on Dec. 2 for "Device for connection or release of bop ram actuator" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,731, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ELECTRICAL SUBSEA & DRILLING AS (Straume, Norway).

"Device for connection or release of bop ram actuator" was invented by Egil Eriksen (Al, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for connecting a ram-actuator to a BOP ram body. The apparatus includes a BOP ram body end portion with locking recesses, a ram-actuator end portion with protruding connection elements which are arranged to fit into the locking recesses, and locking wedges. The locking recesses have first grooves. The protruding connecting elements each have second grooves. The first groves and the second grooves form pairs. ...