Self-deploying and self-healing subsea data network and method of use

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9923629
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14736116

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A self-deploying and self-healing subsea network comprises one or more homing vehicles, one or more data repeaters, and one or more independent guidable homing systems configured to assist the homing vehicles in localization of and docking with the data repeaters. A plurality of data repeaters are deployed in a body of water and, at a predetermined time, a homing vehicle released from a first data repeater and instructed to transit to and dock with a predetermined second data repeater. After docking, a network cable is operatively placed into communication between the first data repeater and the second data repeater.

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OCEANEERING INTERNATIONAL INCHOUSTON TX

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Burke, Thomas Hanover, US 31 188
Hromada, Louis Columbia, US 1 0
Stevens, Mark Alan Houston, US 3 4
Tolman, Thomas Knight Annapolis, US 5 14
Whipple, Dustin Severn, US 3 7
Wieboldt, Gary Annapolis, US 3 6

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