US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on June 2 for "Integration of a finite element geomechanics model and cuttings return image processing techniques" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,009, issued on June 2, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Integration of a finite element geomechanics model and cuttings return image processing techniques" was invented by Hussain Albahrani (Qatif, Saudi Arabia), Arturo Magana-Mora (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohammad Aljubran (Sayhat, Saudi Arabia) and Chinthaka Pasan Gooneratne (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes taking at least one image of a plurality of returned rock fragments from a wellbore using a camera, analyzing the at least one image with an image analysis program to detect a caving in the plurality of ret...