US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Sept. 15 for "Operating downhole wellbore valves" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,957, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Operating downhole wellbore valves" was invented by Pranay Asthana (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ahmed Y. Bukhamseen (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Muhammad Arsalan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Abubaker Saeed (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous downhole tool includes a housing including at least one modular sleeve that rides on the housing and is configured to adjust to conceal or expose a shift latch that includes a latch profile. The latch profile is shaped to interface with a shift sleeve profile of a shift sleeve of a dow...