US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Aug. 4 for "In-pipe localization of tools using signal profiles" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,869, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"In-pipe localization of tools using signal profiles" was invented by Mohammed H. Al-Sharif (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Ahmed Aljarro (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Khalid S. Ghamdi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Salah A. Zahrani (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mohammed T. Abdulmohsin (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for estimating location of features in a pipeline be based on acquiring measurements of electromagnetic signals from the plurality of electromagnetic sensors; detecting welds in walls of the pipeline based on the meas...