US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on March 3 for "Method and system for determining shale rock maturity using microwaves" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,823, issued on March 3, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method and system for determining shale rock maturity using microwaves" was invented by Jose Oliverio Alvarez (Houston) and David Joseph Jacobi (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining shale rock maturity includes a dual mode microwave cavity configured to receive a shale sample, a heating system configured to heat the shale sample to a range of different temperatures using microwave emissions of a first frequency, and a measuring system configured to measure a complex permittivity of the shale sample using a microwave ...