US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Dec. 9 for "Back pressure valve recovery tool and methods of use" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,604, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Back pressure valve recovery tool and methods of use" was invented by Farhan H. Shammari (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Shaker M. Halawie (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Mohammed M. Qethi (Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia) and Hamed M. Nafa (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A back pressure valve recovery tool includes an elongate, cylindrical body having opposing upper and lower ends, and a matable feature provided at the lower end and matable with an inner profile provided on an upper end of a broken section of a back pressure valve (BPV) retrieval...