US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on April 22 for "Wireless wellbore drifting and surveillance" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,540, issued on April 22, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Wireless wellbore drifting and surveillance" was invented by Abdullah M. Bin Ziad (Udhailiyah, Saudi Arabia), Fehead M. Al-Subaie (Udhailiyah, Saudi Arabia), Abdulmajeed M. Alotaibi (Udhailiyah, Saudi Arabia) and Ahmed H. Mahsoon (Udhailiyah, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a dissolvable gauge cutter, a temperature sensor, and a pressure sensor. The dissolvable gauge cutter is made of a dissolvable alloy. The dissolvable gauge cutter is configured to be disposed within and travel through a tubular installed within...