ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,191, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Machine learning framework for treating and preventing scale formation" was invented by James Ohioma Arukhe (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Khalid A. Ghamdi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining well data of the well from a well control system and a water treatment system of a well. The method further includes obtaining a set of operation parameters for the well control system and the water treatment system, wherein the set of operation parameters define, at least in part, operation of the well control sy...