ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,837, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (Busan, South Korea), KOMS INC. (Busan, South Korea) and DHMC Co. LTD. (Jeollanam-do, South Korea).

"Detachable mooring system for offshore structure" was invented by Kang Su Lee (Incheon, South Korea), Hong Gun Sung (Busan, South Korea), Byoung Jae Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Jang Jin Kim (Busan, South Korea), Hyun Kook Kim (Busan, South Korea), Chang Hwan Seo (Busan, South Korea), Kyung Seok Lee (Geoje-si, South Korea) and Yoon Yong Park (Busan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is a detachable mooring system for an offshore str...