ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,568, issued on April 22, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Smart eLine outer diameter meter ring" was invented by Muhammad Imran Javed (Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia), Ayedh M. Shehri (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Sanjiv Kumar (Udhailiyah, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireline operation method is disclosed. The method includes disposing an outer diameter (OD) meter ring on a wireline, the OD meter ring having spring-loaded sensors, releasing, from a spooling drum into the wellbore, the wireline via a wireline passage having a tight spot, a released portion of the wireline progressively passing th...