ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,854, issued on March 18, was assigned to Electronic Power Design Inc. (Houston).

"System and method for dynamically balancing loads on legs supporting a jack up rig platform" was invented by John Bradford Janik (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is disclosed including but not limited to a jack up processor in data communication with each for dynamically balancing loads in real time on a plurality of legs supporting a jack up rig platform having a plurality of gear box motors on the plurality of legs. A processor reads data from sensors on gear box motors on the legs and selects a stored torque profile from a computer r...