US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology on Nov. 18 for "Method to calculate the effective hydraulic aperture and permeability of rock fractures" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,498, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Thuwal-Jeddah, Saudi Arabia).

"Method to calculate the effective hydraulic aperture and permeability of rock fractures" was invented by Marwah Mufid AlSinan (Al Qatif, Saudi Arabia), Hyung Tae Kwak (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Xupeng He (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Hussein Hoteit (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining a 3D hydraulic aperture of a 3D fracture are disclosed. The method includes, obtaining a geometry of the 3D fracture, determining a...