US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on June 30 for "Measuring wellhead displacement using beam deflection" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,403, issued on June 30, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Measuring wellhead displacement using beam deflection" was invented by Sameeh Issa Batarseh (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Damian Pablo San Roman Alerigi (Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing contactless wellhead displacement measurements in a desert environment include adjusting an alignment of optical components in an optical system based on a temperature of the optical system. A pattern of infrared light is projected from the optical system onto a portion of a wellhead, the infrared light having...