US Patent Issued to JIANGSU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on Dec. 2 for "Underwater laying device for offshore oil and gas pipelines and laying method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,640, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to JIANGSU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Jiangsu, China).

"Underwater laying device for offshore oil and gas pipelines and laying method thereof" was invented by Jing Zhang (Jiangsu, China), Xinghua Shi (Jiangsu, China), Peilin Dou (Jiangsu, China), Jian Sun (Jiangsu, China), Kefeng Liu (Jiangsu, China) and Wanchao Zhang (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an underwater laying device for offshore oil and gas pipelines. By using a steel cuboid as the main body, a first mud-plowing rake, a first mud-plowing hoe, a second mud-plowing rake, a second mud-plowing hoe, and a...