ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,107, issued on April 15, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Systems and methods of defect repair of metal pipelines using composite wrap repair with diode laser curing" was invented by Abderrahim Fakiri (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Layan Alaeddin AlSharif (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mazyad Alyami (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems and methods for repairing defects in metal pipes using a composite wrap repair system with diode laser curing."

The patent was filed on Oct. 26, 2022, under Application No. 17/974,071.

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