US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Dec. 9 for "Flange integrity classification using artificial intelligence" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,941, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Flange integrity classification using artificial intelligence" was invented by Siddharth Mishra (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Hassane Trigui (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), Sahejad Patel (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Yazeed Alnumay (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Ahmed Albrahim (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Ali Alrasheed (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Mohammed Alsheikh (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for flange integrity classification using artificial intelligence is described. The method includes obtaining images of a flange, wherein...