ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,711, issued on June 24, was assigned to VETCO GRAY SCANDINAVIA AS (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Subsea closed loop cooling system" was invented by Martin Smaadal (Hovik, Norway) and Ashish Jain (Hovik, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a closed loop subsea cooling system with a subsea cooler. A coolant pump assembly is located in a dedicated, sealed, gas filled, coolant pump housing in coolant fluid connection with the at least one subsea cooler. A heat sink in a dedicated sealed, gas filled, electronics housing is in coolant fluid connection with the subsea cooler. An accumulator is in coolant fluid...