US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Aug. 5 for "Process pumps and related methods of treating a process line" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,954, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Process pumps and related methods of treating a process line" was invented by Omar Wadea Mohammed Khayyat (Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating a fluid within a process line includes flowing a treatment chemical and a first volume of the fluid into an injection chamber of a process pump, exerting an upward force on a lower cylinder of a piston of the process pump with a mixture of the treatment chemical and the first volume of the fluid within the injection chamber, exerting a downward force on an upper cylinde...