ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,595, issued on June 24, was assigned to EQUINOR ENERGY AS (Stavanger, Norway).
"Foundation 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 includes connection points. The connection points are configured to permit components to be connected to the foundation and permit loads to transfer from the components into the foundation. The foundation may be a suction anchor."
The p...