US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Sept. 8 for "System and method for optimizing pipeline network performance" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,817, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method for optimizing pipeline network performance" was invented by Abdulaziz K. Albassam (Tanajib, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples are disclosed herein relating to pipeline network performance optimization. In an example, acoustic wave data representative of one or more propagated acoustic waves through a fluid in a pipeline network can be received. The acoustic wave data can be evaluated to determine whether a density change has occurred in the fluid. Density change data can be outputted in response to detecti...