US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on June 30 for "Wireline subsurface safety valve systems, subsurface safety valve tools, and methods of locking subsurface safety valves" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,031, issued on June 30, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Wireline subsurface safety valve systems, subsurface safety valve tools, and methods of locking subsurface safety valves" was invented by Raissan F. Albeshri (Safwa, Saudi Arabia) and Hussain S. Hunidi (Qatif, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A subsurface safety valve tool includes a body having an upper portion positioned upstream of a subsurface safety valve and a lower portion that extends into and through the an interior bore and a hinged valve of the subsurface safety valve, and at least one protrusion extending from an exterior su...