ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,199, issued on April 29, was assigned to Single Buoy Moorings Inc. (Marly, Switzerland).

"Offshore production facility arrangement" was invented by Jos Leo (Bat. Aigue Marine, Monaco), Jan Van den Boomgaard (Bat. Aigue Marine, Monaco) and Peter Eijk (Bat. Aigue Marine, Monaco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an offshore hydrocarbon production facility arrangement that is to be located on a body of water, which includes a floating hydrocarbon processing unit, a floating renewable electric energy source, and a hydrogen gas source, wherein the floating renewable electric energy source is configured to generate elec...