US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Sept. 29 for "Monitoring drilling rig operations" (Saudi Arabia, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,660, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Monitoring drilling rig operations" was invented by Mahmoud Abughaban (Saihat, Saudi Arabia), Abrar Alshaikh (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Hamzah Nader Abushullaih (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Georgy Peshkov (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods and systems for monitoring drilling rig operations are disclosed. One example method includes obtaining, by an edge server at a drilling rig site during a drilling operation of a wellbore and as obtained data from sensors at the drilling rig site, data from sensors at the drilling rig site. Th...