US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Nov. 4 for "Reducing the risk of dropped strings though the implementation of image processing" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,364, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Reducing the risk of dropped strings though the implementation of image processing" was invented by Euan Martin Murdoch (Aberdeenshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for reducing the risk of dopped string through the implementation of image processing are disclosed. The method includes obtaining a plurality of images of a rotary table, a lower elevator latching position, and an upper elevator position from a rig and analyzing the plurality of images of the rotary table, the lower elevator latching position, a...