US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Nov. 3 for "Determining microbiological corrosion progression" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,262, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Determining microbiological corrosion progression" was invented by Sarah A. Aqeel (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Layan Alaeddin AlSharif (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdulrahman Mohammed Alqahtani (Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia) and Hamad Alsaiari (Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining microbiological corrosion include flowing a mixed-phase wellbore fluid from at least one tank into a volume of a reactor tank of a microbiological corrosion reactor; controlling a multi-channel potentiostat coupled to a three-electrode cell...