US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Dec. 2 for "Systems and methods for untethered wellbore investigation using modular autonomous device" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,762, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Systems and methods for untethered wellbore investigation using modular autonomous device" was invented by Mohamed Larbi Zeghlache (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are discussed. In some cases, the methods may include deploying a modular untethered downhole tool in a wellbore. The modular untethered downhole tool includes a positive buoyant system and a sensing system with a sensor. The sensing system is threadedly attached to the positive buoyant system. The positive buoyant system may be replaced by t...