US Patent Issued to TRANSOCEAN SEDCO FOREX VENTURES, STEBBINS INNOVATIONS on Oct. 7 for "Robotic system for making or breaking a riser" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,582, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TRANSOCEAN SEDCO FOREX VENTURES Ltd. (Hamilton, Bermuda) and STEBBINS INNOVATIONS LLC (Houston).

"Robotic system for making or breaking a riser" was invented by Craig McCormick (Houston), Michael Coady (Houston), John Martin (Houston), James Lippold (Houston), Michael Willey (Houston) and Shane McClaugherty (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system for making or breaking the riser includes a robotic system. The robotic system includes one or more robotic arms configured to be disposed on a spider deck, and one or more riser-connection manipulation tools each having a camera and being con...