Patents by Inventor Bjørn R. Lien

Bjørn R. Lien has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System and method to transfer fluid
    Patent number: 7857001
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system to transfer fluid via at least one pipeline from one structure to another structure (such as a platform P and a vessel v respectively), in which one of the structures has an offloading arm 5 which is movable in to planes perpendicular to each other and in which a part of the offloading arm remote from the one structure is engagable with the other structure, so to allow linear and rotational movements between the structures. The pipeline along the offloading arm is configured to compensate for movements between the two structures in the longitudinal direction of the offloading arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Moss Maratime AC
    Inventors: Per Herbert Kristensen, Bjørn R. Lien, Per Erik Christiansen, Leif Harald Pettersen, Alexander Areshev