US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Oct. 27 for "Method for boring a cylindrical sample from 3D-printed structure" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,941, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for boring a cylindrical sample from 3D-printed structure" was invented by Rolando F. Martinez (Katy, Texas), Kenneth Dejuan Johnson (Tomball, Texas) and Ali Zein Khater (Pearland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to support a structure for boring and subsequent characterization tests which includes selecting and preparing a casting material, placing the structure, with a structure height, into the casting material which possesses a base side and a casting material height, and allowing for the casting material to set, creat...