US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on June 30 for "Methods and systems for acoustic drift run" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,601, issued on June 30, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods and systems for acoustic drift run" was invented by Abdullah Wosaibei (Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia) and Hasan M. Jassem (Hofuf, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of and systems for evaluating accessibility inside a wellbore may include a transducer connected to a wave-generating unit and an analyzing unit, which are all disposed above the wellbore. The method may include emitting at least one acoustic wave through the transducer disposed above the wellbore; propagating the at least one acoustic wave downwards in the wellbor...