US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 21 for "Balance drum for a rotating machine" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,176, issued on July 21, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Balance drum for a rotating machine" was invented by Mutlaq F. Azmi (Tanajib, Saudi Arabia), Naif M. Alghuthayf (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Mubarak I. Alabdulaaly (Unayzah, Saudi Arabia), Mohammed A. Alswayied (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Abdulrahman A. Madani (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A balance drum for a rotating machine includes an outer ring; an inner disk that includes a bore configured to receive a shaft; and a turbine assembly connected between an outer edge of the inner disk and an inner edge of the outer ring, the tur...