US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Aug. 12 for "Determining severity of stepwise cracking in a pressurized vessel" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,307, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Determining severity of stepwise cracking in a pressurized vessel" was invented by Abdulrahman Mohammed Alqahtani (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Maher Hamed Alerwi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Christian Canto Maya (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To determine severity of stepwise cracking in a pressurized vessel, a computer system receives an image collection of an area of a circumferential wall of the vessel. The image collection includes images distributed across the area, and represent respective cracks on the wall within the ar...