US Patent Issued to FMC Technologies on March 18 for "Systems, devices and methods for orienting a production outlet of a subsea production tree" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,950, issued on March 18, was assigned to FMC Technologies Inc. (Houston).

"Systems, devices and methods for orienting a production outlet of a subsea production tree" was invented by Richard Murphy (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One illustrative apparatus (1) disclosed herein includes a helix structure (20) that comprises at least at least one helical surface (15), a plurality of orientation slots (17) positioned around a perimeter of the helix structure, each of the orientation slots (17) being adapted to receive an orientation key (18), a component orientation slot (21) positioned adjacent a bottom end of the at least one...