US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on March 31 for "Optical energy apparatus, systems, and methods" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,836, issued on March 31, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Optical energy apparatus, systems, and methods" was invented by Damian Pablo San Roman Alerigi (Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for operating an optical energy system include operating an optical energy system to generate a laser beam from a laser device, where the optical energy system including an array of sensors radially positioned apart from a path of the laser beam; capturing, with each of the sensors, energy scattered from a transversal energy distribution of the laser beam; outputting, from each of the s...