US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Feb. 17 for "Drone-based acquisition of wellhead data and wireless choke adjustment" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,313, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Drone-based acquisition of wellhead data and wireless choke adjustment" was invented by Mohammed Ali AlAmeer (Khobar, Saudi Arabia) and Aqeel MohammedJalal Al-Bahrani (Hofuf, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a drone is disclosed for inspecting a wellhead having a transceiver and adjusting an electronic choke. The drone includes a plurality of propellers and a plurality of electric motors where each of the plurality of electric motors is connected to one or more of the plurality of propellers. The drone further include...