US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Feb. 24 for "Corrosion monitoring system for multiphase fluids pipelines" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,285, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Corrosion monitoring system for multiphase fluids pipelines" was invented by Majed M. Alutaibi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Hassan A. Basri (Al Jesh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To monitor corrosion in multiphase fluids pipelines, a first pipe is fluidically coupled to extend perpendicularly away from a bottom portion of a multiphase hydrocarbons pipeline. The multiphase hydrocarbons include oil, gas and water. The first pipe is fluidically coupled to a T-shaped pipe subassembly including a second pipe and a third pipe attached to th...