US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 21 for "Sealing devices and related methods for oil and gas applications" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,246, issued on July 21, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Sealing devices and related methods for oil and gas applications" was invented by Richard Mark Pye (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Hashim Awwami (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Abdulrahman Assiri (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing device includes a first ring that is fixedly attached to a pipe segment, a second ring that is movably secured to the pipe segment and spaced axially apart from the first ring in an initial configuration of the sealing device, and a third ring that axially overlaps a first wall portion of the first ring...