US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Dec. 16 for "In-pipe localization of pipeline inspection gadgets" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,073, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"In-pipe localization of pipeline inspection gadgets" was invented by Mohammed H. Al-Sharif (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Ahmed Aljarro (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Khalid S. Ghamdi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Salah A. Zahrani (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Mohammed T. Abdulmohsin (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for localizing a traveling device in a pipeline include a traveling device comprising a plurality of electromagnetic sensors and an inertial measurement unit; acquiring a plurality of measurements from the inertial ...