US Patent Issued to ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering on March 4 for "Modular offshore floating platform systems and methods for operating the same" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,566, issued on March 4, was assigned to ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Co. (Spring, Texas).

"Modular offshore floating platform systems and methods for operating the same" was invented by Sai Mohan Majhi (Houston), Patrick C. Wong (Cypress, Texas), Gary L. Hurst (Houston) and Donghwan Lee (The Woodlands, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular floating platform system includes a detachable floating buoy providing a body tethered to a seafloor with a plurality of mooring lines and coupled to a subsea production system via one or more communication lines, and a plurality of floating surface facilities, each floating surfa...