ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,932, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAIPEM S.A. (Montigny le Bretonneux, France).

"Subsea facility and method for processing gas from a subsea gas production field" was invented by Christian Blazquez Egea (Courbevoie, France) and Paul Roland (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A facility and a method for processing gas from a subsea gas production field, includes a cooling module supplied with a gas/liquid mixture coming directly from at least one subsea gas field, and a gas/liquid separation module which delivers processed gas to a gas export pipeline and liquid to a liquid export pipeline. The gas/liquid separation module incl...