US Patent Issued to FMC Technologies on March 18 for "Modular control systems with umbilical deployment" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,951, issued on March 18, was assigned to FMC Technologies Inc. (Houston).

"Modular control systems with umbilical deployment" was invented by James Cook (Houston), Corey Massey (Houston) and Chad Vrla (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit includes a hydraulic fluid system, a lubricant system, at least one sensor cable, an electronics module in communication with the at least one sensor cable, the hydraulic fluid system, and the lubricant system. A housing of the control unit contains the hydraulic fluid system, the lubricant system, the sensor cable(s), and the electronics module."

The patent was filed on Aug. 26, ...