US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on July 21 for "Methods and systems for acoustic determination of gas composition" (Saudi Arabia, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,525, issued on July 21, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods and systems for acoustic determination of gas composition" was invented by Vijay Ramakrishnan (Houston), Alejandro Vera (Houston) and Muhammad Arsalan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for determining a composition of a gas in a pipe using a plurality of pressure sensors disposed along the pipe. Each pressure sensor in the plurality of pressure sensors may include a diaphragm for sensing pressure that is aligned with an inner wall of the pipe, and the location of each pressure sensor in the plura...