US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Aug. 25 for "Robotic device and method for gathering soil data along pipelines using smart sensors" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,882, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Robotic device and method for gathering soil data along pipelines using smart sensors" was invented by Ghazi Salman Qahtani (Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Rahaf Nasser Almutairi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Maher Hamed Alerwi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Christian Canto Maya (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for gathering soil data along a trajectory comprises a crawler body that houses a processor that is configured with instructions for controlling the apparatus, memory coupled to the processor, and a GPS module and motor al...