US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on May 26 for "System and method for automated drill cutting monitoring" (Russian, Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,945, issued on May 26, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method for automated drill cutting monitoring" was invented by Ekaterina Tolstaya (Moscow), Sergey Safonov (Moscow) and Arturo Magana Mora (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automated drill cutting monitoring system includes a digital imaging device mounted to a shale shaker of a wellbore drilling assembly and a computer system. The digital imaging device captures digital images of solid objects released when drilling a subterranean zone. The computer system receives the digital images and determines a space occupied by...