US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Sept. 8 for "Validating performance of a bi-directional prover" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,996, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Validating performance of a bi-directional prover" was invented by Abdullah A. Alabdulhai (Al Qatif, Saudi Arabia), Ali A. Alqahtani (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Mishal D. Alsaleh (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bi-directional prover validation system includes a bi-directional prover that includes a calibration section and a launch section fluidly coupled to a fluid flow system that circulates a process fluid and configured to bi-directionally move a displacer through the fluid conduit. The bi-directional prover validation sys...