US Patent Issued to Subsea 7 Norway AS on Aug. 5 for "Lifting systems for subsea pipelines and methods for installing lifting systems" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,098, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Subsea 7 Norway AS (Stavanger, Norway).

"Lifting systems for subsea pipelines and methods for installing lifting systems" was invented by Anders Veungen Berg (Stavanger, Norway), Odd Vegard Skrunes (Stavanger, Norway), Jorn Knutsen (Sandnes, Norway), Gabriel Grodem (Rennesoy, Norway) and Stig Hjorth (Klepp Stasjon, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lifting system and a method of installing a lifting frame for lifting a subsea pipeline has paired subsea foundations spaced apart from each other by a gap through which the pipeline extends. A removable lifting frame is mounted on the foundation...