US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 28 for "Mitigating flow variability and slugging in pipelines" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,770, issued on July 28, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Mitigating flow variability and slugging in pipelines" was invented by Othman Taha (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ariffen Bin Adnan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Yuk San Man (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for mitigating flow variability and slugging in pipelines (e.g., trunk-lines leading to gas-oil separation plants (GOSP)) use supervised machine learning algorithms to develop operational strategies for controlling inflows to facilities such as GOSPs."

The patent was filed on June 26, 2023, under Application No...