US Patent Issued to Fusematic on April 15 for "Buoyancy provisions for facilitating underwater friction welding" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,096, issued on April 15, was assigned to Fusematic Corp. (Pasadena, Texas).

"Buoyancy provisions for facilitating underwater friction welding" was invented by Harvey Lau (Houston), John M. Griffin (Houston), Thomas Foley (Houston), Mark Andrew Smith (Houston) and Richard Jackson (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and buoyancy system are disclosed for facilitating diver directed underwater friction welding (also known as friction welding) operations. Various illustrative embodiments of the method, buoyancy system and combined portable friction welding system and buoyancy provisions are disclosed for improving ease of dive...