ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,058, issued on March 4, was assigned to Seatrec Inc. (Vista, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for making internally finned pressure vessel" was invented by Michael Zedelmair (Vista, Calif.), Yi Chao (Vista, Calif.) and Robin Willis (Vista, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for fabricating an internally finned pressure vessel includes a plurality of positioning discs, each of the positioning discs defining a plurality of circumferentially spaced slots extending radially into the positioning disc from a perimeter thereof, and one or more rods extending through the plurality of positioning discs, the plurality of position...