US Patent Issued to Subsea 7 on July 22 for "Deployment of unmanned underwater vehicles" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,430, issued on July 22, was assigned to Subsea 7 Ltd. (Sutton, Great Britain).

"Deployment of unmanned underwater vehicles" was invented by James Andrew Jamieson (Balmedie, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remotely operated vehicle (ROV) docked to a tether management system (TMS) is lifted outboard into water beside a vessel while deploying an umbilical that effects communication with the ROV via a tether of the TMS. After undocking the ROV to swim away from the TMS while deploying the tether, the TMS is suspended over the water while the ROV performs a subsea mission. A mobile or transportable ROV support unit can be p...