ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,639, issued on April 21, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"System and method for predictive volumetric and structural evaluation of storage tanks" was invented by Sahejad Patel (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Hassane Trigui (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Brian Parrott (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Fadl Abdellatif (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for predictive volumetric and structural evaluation of petroleum product containers. The system includes a computing device in communication with data input devices and implementation tools including calibration devices for me...