US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Dec. 9 for "Expandable wellbore loss control patch" (British, Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,600, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Expandable wellbore loss control patch" was invented by Rae Andrew Younger (Aberdeen, Great Britain), Steven John Burnett (Aberdeen, Great Britain) and Richard Mark Pye (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wellbore patching system includes a radially expandable tube member including a sheet wrapped in a spiral. The sheet includes a first circumferential edge and a second circumferential edge opposite the first circumferential edge and coupled to the first circumferential edge. The radially expandable tube member includes a hollow ...