US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Oct. 6 for "Digital tracer for well behavior identification" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,199, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Digital tracer for well behavior identification" was invented by Sanjiv Kumar (Udhailiyah, Saudi Arabia) and Mohammed A. Al-Abdulhay (Ahsa, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a flow line, a conduit, a turbine, an energy generator, and a chip. The flow line has an outer circumferential surface and an inner circumferential surface and connected to the well. The conduit is delineated by the inner circumferential surface of the flow line. The turbine is disposed in the conduit of the flow line and configured to convert kin...