ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,177, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

"Compact venturi with embedded dual mutually orthogonal resonator (DMOR) sensors to measure multiphase flow rates" was invented by Muhammad Arsalan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Muhammad Akram Karimi (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Zubair Akhter (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Atif Shamim (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Waventuri flowmeter includes a Venturi flowmeter with a multiphase fraction measurement device incorporated therein. The Waventuri flowmeter includ...