ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,033, issued on March 11, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Bayern, Germany).
"Subsea connector" was invented by Wesley Barrett (Kendal, Great Britain), Cameron Brennan (Ulverston, Great Britain), Christopher Burrow (Ulverston, Great Britain), Jonathan Hardisty (Ulverston, Great Britain) and Peter Henry (Milnthorpe, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An independently mountable sensor system for a wet-mateable subsea connector or a dry-mateable subsea connector having at least one of a receptacle connector body or a plug connector body with a pressure vessel; one or more sensors, a power source, a transmit...