US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on Oct. 21 for "Method for surveying and analyzing soil samples in a geographic area" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,368, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method for surveying and analyzing soil samples in a geographic area" was invented by Yakubu Sani Wudil (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohammed A. Al-Osta (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Omar S. Baghabra Al-Amoudi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Muhammad A. Gondal (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Osama Atef Al Najjar (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A field portable device for determining the unconfined compressive strength of a soil sample includes a sample holder, a heating device, a scale, a spectrometer, and a microprocess...