US Patent Issued to PETROLEO BRASILEIRO S.A.-PETROBRAS, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL-UFRGS on July 1 for "Compliant component for supporting bend stiffeners" (Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,099, issued on July 1, was assigned to PETROLEO BRASILEIRO S.A.-PETROBRAS (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL-UFRGS (Porto Alegre, Brazil).

"Compliant component for supporting bend stiffeners" was invented by Claudio Violante Ferreira (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Bruno Pinho Dos Reis (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Rogerio Jose Marczak (Porto Alegre, Brazil), Jorge Gomes De Melo Medeiros (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Leonel Echer (Porto Alegre, Brazil), Gilnei Reckziegel (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Jakson Manfredini Vassoler (Porto Alegre, Brazil) and Flavio Barroso De Mello (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trad...