ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,522, issued on July 15, was assigned to HYDRIL USA DISTRIBUTION LLC (Houston).
"Flexible linear accessible controls subsea" was invented by Amine Abou-Assaad (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A housing system includes a housing body having an internal cavity and an opening. A cap is removably fitted to the opening using a set of sliders. Each slider in the set of sliders has a fixed rail secured to an internal surface of the housing body and a dynamic rail connected to an inner surface of the cap. The cap slides between open and closed configurations on the dynamic rail. One or more components are also connected to the inner su...