US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on April 22 for "Generating power with a conduit inspection tool" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,681, issued on April 22, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Generating power with a conduit inspection tool" was invented by Pablo Daniel Genta (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mohammed Zulaly (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a conduit inspection tool in a conduit includes positioning a conduit inspection tool in the conduit, the conduit inspection tool including a body that includes one or more wheels, at least two power generating sub-systems coupled to the body, and at least one energy storage device electrically coupled to the at least two power generating sub-syst...