ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,199, issued on April 29, was assigned to PGS Geophysical AS (Oslo, Norway).

"Methods and systems for application of wax on geophysical streamers" was invented by Christian Vasbo (Oslo, Norway), Rune Tonnessen (Oslo, Norway), Thomas Hauge (Oslo, Norway), Par Johansson (Trollhattan, Sweden), Mikael Tuved (Trollhattan, Sweden), Kaj Andersson (Trollhattan, Sweden) and Andreas Carlen (Trollhattan, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate generally to marine geophysical surveying. More particularly, embodiments relate to a wax application system for application of a wax coating to a surface of a streamer. An embodiment may c...