US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology on Nov. 25 for "Downhole monitoring using few-mode optical fiber based distributed acoustic sensing" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,081, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

"Downhole monitoring using few-mode optical fiber based distributed acoustic sensing" was invented by Frode Hveding (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Islam Ashry (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Mao Yuan (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Mohd Sharizal Bin Alias (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Boon Siew Ooi (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Muhammad Arsalan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method for removing int...