US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 22 for "Gaseous bubble system and method to measure gelation time" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,554, issued on July 22, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Gaseous bubble system and method to measure gelation time" was invented by Mohanad M. Fahmi (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia) and Abdulkareem AlSofi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system to determine a gelation time of a substance in a container is disclosed. The system includes a container, a bubble generator arranged at a first end of the container, and a bubble sensor arranged at the second end of the container. The container holds a substance having a surface adjacent the second end. The bubble generator is config...