US Patent Issued to TechnipFMC Norge AS on Sept. 23 for "Method of laying a pipeline on a seafloor, monitoring surrounding zones of the installed pipeline for approaching vessels and warning vessels considered to be able to cause harm to the pipeline" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,060, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TechnipFMC Norge AS (Kongsberg, Norway).

"Method of laying a pipeline on a seafloor, monitoring surrounding zones of the installed pipeline for approaching vessels and warning vessels considered to be able to cause harm to the pipeline" was invented by Mohammed Khajavi (Stabekk, Norway), Tobias Sommerfelt Ronning (Stabekk, Norway), Eric Waymel (Vestfossen, Norway), Nicholas Riviere (Oslo, Norway) and Elisabeth Nost (Kolsas, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is described a method of laying a pipeline (1) on a seafloor (2), wherein the method comprises the steps of: -bringing the pipelin...