US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on May 5 for "Dispensing microprocessor devices for downhole data collection" (Saudi Arabia, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,322, issued on May 5, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Dispensing microprocessor devices for downhole data collection" was invented by Abrar Alshaikh (Saihat, Saudi Arabia), Raed Alahmdi (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Bodong Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drilling fluid system includes: at least one microprocessor device; a container that defines an interior volume; a container inlet that provides access for entry of the at least one microprocessor device into the interior volume of the container; a container outlet that provides egress for passage of the at least one microprocessor device from...