US Patent Issued to FMC Kongsberg Subsea AS on Nov. 11 for "Low torque actuated tubing hanger orientation" (Norwegian, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,331, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to FMC Kongsberg Subsea AS (Kongsberg, Norway).

"Low torque actuated tubing hanger orientation" was invented by Thomas Doran (Kongsberg, Norway), Graham Ford (Holmestrand, Norway), Alexey Voronezhev (Oslo, Norway), Marcel Rozek (Cracow, Poland) and Frank Wergeland (Erdal, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for blowout preventer independent alignment and installation of a tubing hanger within a subsea well system. A tubing hanger orientation assembly may be included with a rotary actuator that provides low torque adjustment and fine alignment of the tubing hanger wi...