US Patent Issued to GRANT PRIDECO on Dec. 30 for "Apparatus, system and methods for moving a load between a floating vessel and a submerged position" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,189, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GRANT PRIDECO INC. (Houston).

"Apparatus, system and methods for moving a load between a floating vessel and a submerged position" was invented by Einar Mydland (Kristiansand, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes an apparatus for suspending a connector provided on a first elongated hoisting member during a subsea hoisting operation. The apparatus includes a mechanism for holding the connector, in which, when the mechanism is subjected to a hydrostatic pressure above a threshold pressure, the mechanism is changeable to a configuration for moving past the connect...