US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Feb. 17 for "Smart body for contactless detection of defects using artificial intelligence" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,820, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Smart body for contactless detection of defects using artificial intelligence" was invented by Ahmed Aljarro (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Mohmmed T. Abdulmohsin (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ahmed I. Hawas (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Khalid Ghamdi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Salah A. Zahrani (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a buoyant housing, a sensor arrangement housed within the buoyant housing that includes an electromagnetic (EM) transmitter surrounded by several EM receivers, a hardware processor, and instruction...