ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,222, issued on June 3, was assigned to Innovex International Inc. (Houston).
"Subsea equipment alignment device" was invented by Blake T. DeBerry (Houston), Morris B. Wade (Houston), Flavio Santos (Houston), Andrew Mitchell (Houston), Gregory Norwood (Boerne, Texas), Robert Buxton (Cypress, Texas), David Scantlebury (Houston), Matthew Crotwell (Houston), Justin Rye (Houston) and Todd L. Scaggs (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for coupling subsea tubular members together are provided. An apparatus may be used to properly orient and/or provide communication between a first subsea tubular member that is being l...