ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,371, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Ocean Access AS (Trondheim, Norway).
"System and method for transmitting subsea parameters" was invented by Andreas Mauritzen (Trondheim, Norway) and Fredrik Lilleokdal (Trondheim, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is for monitoring subsea parameters and is deployable in a water column. The system has: a tether to be moored to a seabed; a variable buoyancy member; one or more sensor units for sensing one or more subsea parameters; and a control unit. The control unit has a communication member for receiving data from the sensor unit(s) and for transmitting the data wirelessly to a ...