US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Aug. 25 for "Detecting passing valves" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,802, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Detecting passing valves" was invented by Yazeed Alnumay (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Ali Alrasheed (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Amjad Felemban (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems and methods for detecting passing valves. A method includes measuring vibrational data with a sensor coupled to a pipe adjacent to a valve; generating a spectrogram representing a time variation of frequencies of the vibrational data; detecting that the valve is a passing valve by classifying the spectrogram as including freque...