US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL, KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on June 24 for "Foldable particles for lost circulation materials and related method" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,386, issued on June 24, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

"Foldable particles for lost circulation materials and related method" was invented by Carlos Daniel Rodriguez Hernandez (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Ahmed Amr Mohamed Hafez Abdelaziz (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Thomas Finkbeiner (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Juan Carlos Santamarina (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Mohammad Arfaj (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Raed A. Alouhali (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Timothy Eric Moellendick (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lost circulatio...