US Patent Issued to TRANSOCEAN OFFSHORE DEEPWATER DRILLING on March 11 for "Systems for reducing fluid hammer in subsea systems" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,452, issued on March 11, was assigned to TRANSOCEAN OFFSHORE DEEPWATER DRILLING INC. (Houston).

"Systems for reducing fluid hammer in subsea systems" was invented by Craig McCormick (Houston), Scott Reynolds (Houston), Robert Mebane (Houston), Mete Mutlu (Houston) and Jean Paul Buisine (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pumping system includes a plurality of pumps, each having an inlet and an outlet. The inlet is fluidly coupled to a hydraulic fluid reservoir. The outlet is fluidly coupled to a control pod having a valve and a pair of sensors monitoring upstream and downstream pressures of the valve. The control pod is fluidl...