ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,474, issued on July 21, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Hardness testing system" was invented by Subindas Melapurakkal Mohandas (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Tariq A. Al-Ghamdi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to hardness testing. In some examples, a system can include memory to store machine-readable instructions, which can be executed by one or more processors to implement a method of determining a hardness of a test material. The machine-readable instructions can include a hardness tester that can be programmed to receive image data that can inclu...