US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 21 for "Ultrasonic in-line inspection system with square transducers" (Saudi Arabia, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,523, issued on July 21, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Ultrasonic in-line inspection system with square transducers" was invented by Aziz U. Rehman (Edmonton, Canada), Isa H. Al-Mudaibegh (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Naif A. Al-Sufyani (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Ahmed F. Al-Rashidi (Khobar, Saudi Arabia) and Yasser S. Al-Subhi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ultrasonic pipeline crack inspection systems and methods can include a housing with an elongate body; a plurality of slots on a circumferential surface of the elongate body; and a plurality of square cross-section ultrasonic trans...