ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,018, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Alkhorayef Petroleum Co. (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"Electrical submersible motor protecting system and method with chemical chamber" was invented by Woon Yung Lee (Sugar Land, Texas), Ying Xue (Shanghai), Junsik Kim (Pohang, South Korea), Carlos Leon (Bogota, Colo.) and Carlos Escobar (Bogota, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric submersible pump system for use in a wellbore includes a pump; a motor protection component having an oil chamber and an wellbore fluid chamber; a motor component, the motor component including oil and being fluidly coupled to the oil chamber of the motor pro...