US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Feb. 17 for "Relative grain size determination and flow characterization in sedimentary reservoirs" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,337, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Relative grain size determination and flow characterization in sedimentary reservoirs" was invented by Weihua Wang (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ibrahim A. Makrami (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdullah K. Idrees (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mohammed M. Alshalan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A relative grain size value for subterranean depth intervals is generated by executing a machine learning model to process the petrophysical well log data. The relative grain size value represents relative proportions of grain sizes of sedimentary...