ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,594, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ENOVATE SYSTEMS Ltd. (Aberdeen, Great Britain).
"Bore selector" was invented by Ibiye Roberts (Aberdeenshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bore selector for use with a monobore riser and a multi-bore subsea system having a production bore and an annulus bore. The bore selector has a housing extending in a longitudinal direction and a bore selector element rotatably mounted to the housing and is rotatable about an axis which extends substantially transverse to the longitudinal direction. The bore selector element may comprise a ball element, or a cylindrical element. The bore sel...