US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Nov. 25 for "Measuring the speed of electromagnetic wave propagation in a fluid within a conduit" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,819, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Measuring the speed of electromagnetic wave propagation in a fluid within a conduit" was invented by Alejandro M. Vera (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include a method for determining wave propagation speed. Spatio-temporally-sampled data for electromagnetic (EM) wave propagation through a fluid in a conduit is acquired for different instants of time from each antenna of an array of antennas distributed at predetermined locations. A k-Omega plot plotting curves having a kinematic relationship Omega=ck is generated b...