US Patent Issued to SAIPEM on April 22 for "Method for joining elements of underwater pipe for transporting fluids" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,456, issued on April 22, was assigned to SAIPEM S.A. (Montigny le Bretonneux, France).

"Method for joining elements of underwater pipe for transporting fluids" was invented by Liborio Moceri (Lommoye, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for jointing elements of a pipeline for the transport of fluids includes a support structure on which a pipeline section to be jointed is intended to be mounted, two parallel fixed rails, four plates each comprising a first element capable of cooperating with a rail and a second element fixed on the support structure. The first and the second elements of each plate is linked by a first cylin...