US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on April 15 for "Ultrasonic flow check systems for wellbores" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,190, issued on April 15, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Ultrasonic flow check systems for wellbores" was invented by Ahmed Al-Mousa (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Hassan K. Al-Aswad (Al Qatif, Saudi Arabia) and Omar M. Alhamid (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic flow check system for wellbores includes an ultrasonic transceiver installed within an inner surface of a bell nipple attached to a well head of a wellbore at a surface. The bell nipple receives wellbore fluid from a flow line attached to a side surface of the bell nipple. An alarm is installed on a rotary table install...