US Patent Issued to THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM on April 22 for "Apparatus and method for a real-time-monitoring of a riser and mooring of floating platforms" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,859, issued on April 22, was assigned to THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (College Station, Texas).

"Apparatus and method for a real-time-monitoring of a riser and mooring of floating platforms" was invented by Moo-Hyun Kim (College Station, Texas), Hansung Kim (College Station, Texas) and Chungkuk Jin (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, method and system for real-time monitoring of underwater risers, cables, and mooring lines based on a Kalman filter. In an embodiment, the system is formed with sensors configured to sense an inclination of a riser segment between riser nodes of the riser between the up...