US Patent Issued to TechnipFMC Norge AS on Oct. 28 for "Pressure compensator and assembly comprising a subsea installation and such a pressure compensator" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,568, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TechnipFMC Norge AS (Kongsberg, Norway).

"Pressure compensator and assembly comprising a subsea installation and such a pressure compensator" was invented by Stein Folkner (Osteras, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention proposes a double barrier pressure compensator for performing a pressure compensation between seawater surrounding a subsea installation and a medium filling a volume of the subsea installation. Said pressure compensator comprises: -a housing (20) having a first opening (202b) and a second opening (30); -a first bellows (4) and a second bellows (5) arranged one abo...