US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Aug. 11 for "Evaluating biological materials at reservoir conditions" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,495, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Evaluating biological materials at reservoir conditions" was invented by Ameerah Mohammed Madani Bokhari (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Abdulrahman B. Aljedaani (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for evaluating biological materials at reservoir conditions include a reactor housing and a plurality of test columns having source rock sample holders. The plurality of test columns is disposed within the reactor housing. A pump is fluidly coupled to the reactor housing. A heating element is coupled to the reactor housin...