US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on March 3 for "Determining a volume of metallic swarf in a wellbore fluid" (Saudi Arabia, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,171, issued on March 3, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Determining a volume of metallic swarf in a wellbore fluid" was invented by Dwight W. Swett (Cypress, Texas), Timothy Thiel (Houston), Richard Pye (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Atallah N. Al-Harbi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Huseyin Rahmi Seren (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metallic swarf sensor includes a housing configured to couple to a fluid conduit that includes a flowpath for a circulation of a wellbore fluid that includes metallic swarf; a magnetic tine assembly that includes a pair of magnetic tines that extend from the housing and ...