ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,472, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to EQUINOR ENERGY AS (Stavanger, Norway).
"Subsea assembly modularization" was invented by Asle Eide (Sandnes, Norway), Morten Saether (Lillestrom, Norway), Harald Sigurd Nesse (Sandnes, Norway), Lorents Reinas (Stavanger, Norway), Kjell Einar Ellingsen (Tananger, Norway) and Bjorgulf Haukelidsaeter Eidesen (Stavanger, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foundation for a subsea assembly is provided. The foundation includes connection points. The connection points permit other components to be connected to the foundation and permit loads to transfer from the other components into the foundation. ...