US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for controlling fluid flow in a wellbore utilizing a flow control system" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,317, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Systems and methods for controlling fluid flow in a wellbore utilizing a flow control system" was invented by Mohammed A. Aldossary (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Mostafa M. Bori (Qatif, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow control system for controlling multiphase formation fluid flow in a wellbore may comprise an electric submersible pump, an intake screen, a controller, a sensor, and a heating component, wherein: the intake screen comprises a shape memory alloy (SMA) mesh configured to perform a reversible modification between a first...