ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,216, issued on July 14, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method and system for predicting properties of rock samples using thermal sensing and machine learning" was invented by Damian Pablo San Roman Alerigi (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include determining a thermal signal for a thermal analysis of a rock sample. The method may further include transmitting various commands to various thermal sources to produce various heat emissions. A respective command among the commands may cause a respective thermal source among the thermal sources to produce a respective ...