ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,126, issued on March 3, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Determining corrosion rates" was invented by Abdulrahman Mohammed Alqahtani (Khobar, Saudi Arabia) and Mazyad Alyami (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining corrosion rates include a corrosion sensor. The corrosion sensor includes a corrodible layer having a front face and a back face opposite the front face; a fiber Bragg grating sensor layer having a front face and a back face opposite the front face, the front face of the fiber Bragg grating sensor layer coupled to the back face of the corrodible...