US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on July 21 for "Cooled flare tip barrel" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,294, issued on July 21, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Cooled flare tip barrel" was invented by Qasem Jawad Alhassan (Alhofuf, Saudi Arabia), Min Hyun Cho (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Sayee Prasad Raghunathan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdulaziz Hassan Al Tijani (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia) and Mohammad Hanif Khankhara (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flare tip assembly includes a barrel having a barrel wall with an inner surface and an outer surface, an interior cavity defined within the inner surface and extending axially through the barrel, and internal channels formed through the...