ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,057, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TECHNIP FRANCE (France).
"Method of preparing a pipe-section" was invented by Javad Safari (Aberdeenshire, Great Britain) and Matthew Paul Gready (Aberdeenshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing a pipe-section for welding to another pipe-section to form a pipeline comprising a plurality of said pipe-sections, the method comprising at least the steps of: (i) providing a pipe-section having first and second pipe-ends; (ii) defining a first portion L1 of the longitudinal length of the pipe-section from the first pipe-end being in the range 3% to 40% of the overall...