US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on April 21 for "Devices and systems for drilling a wellbore" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,087, issued on April 21, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Devices and systems for drilling a wellbore" was invented by Atallah N. Alharbi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Mohammed Al-Shehri (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Amjad Alshaarawi (Khobar, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotating control device includes an inner seal assembly configured to be disposed around a drill string and includes at least one pressure seal. The rotating control device includes an outer body configured to be operatively coupled to a blowout preventor. The outer body includes a primary cavity configured to receive, at l...