ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,756, issued on June 17, was assigned to MAGELLAN & BARENTS S.L. (Oviedo, Spain).
"Dense fluids for ballasts" was invented by Ciriaco P Bustamante (Oviedo, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are dense fluids for use in offshore applications, such as wind turbine platforms, oil and gas platforms, gravity anchors, catenary weights as well as other gravity-based structures. The dense fluid can be mixed with low-density fluid and high-density solid particles to form an intermediate dense fluid. The intermediate dense fluid is mixed with intermediate-density solid particles having the same density as the intermediate dense flui...