ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,568, issued on March 4, was assigned to NEXANS (Courbevoie, France).
"Cable protection system" was invented by Elisabeth Gjolmesli (Oslo, Norway), Rayhan Habibie (Halden, Norway) and Per Kristian Pedersen (Oslo, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power cable or umbilical with a cable protection system for stabilising a submarine power cable or umbilical in the free span between an offshore installation and the seabed. An offshore transfer system has an offshore structure, a power cable or umbilical and a receiving structure, the power cable or umbilical being protected in a non-supported section by such a cable protection system...