ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,350, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Radon level management of natural gas from unconventional and conventional resources" was invented by Milind M. Vaidya (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Sebastien A. Duval (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Feras Hamad (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Faisal D. Al-Otaibi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are systems and methods for removing radon from a natural gas stream. The system includes a radon permeable membrane. The radon permeable membrane is configured to separate a natural gas stream into a radon rich permeate stream and a rado...