US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Aug. 25 for "Method and apparatus for temporary sealing of flange leaks on industrial pipelines" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,541, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method and apparatus for temporary sealing of flange leaks on industrial pipelines" was invented by Fahad M. Meshal (Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Abiola Onikoyi (Khurais, Saudi Arabia), Mohammad A. Al-Otaibi (Khobar, Saudi Arabia) and Khaled Al-Sunnary (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to methods and systems for temporarily sealing a leak between flanges of a pipeline. The disclosed systems comprise a flexible tube, a sealant fluid, and a gas-release assembly. The flexible tube comprises a tube mater...