US Patent Issued to NOBLE DRILLING on March 18 for "Offshore drilling vessel with an external cable connection and method therefor" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,223, issued on March 18, was assigned to NOBLE DRILLING A/S (Kongens Lyngby, Denmark).

"Offshore drilling vessel with an external cable connection and method therefor" was invented by Mikkel Sondergaard Pedersen (Thisted, Denmark) and John Ron Pedersen (Frederikssund, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An offshore drilling vessel includes a hull and at least one opening in the hull arranged to receive an end of at least one submersible cable. The offshore drilling vessel also comprises a cable capture mechanism configured to lift the end of the at least one submersible cable through the at least one opening from a submersed posi...