ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,988, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Digital greasing intelligent tool" was invented by Jafar Ibrahim Al Bahrani (Al-Hofuf, Saudi Arabia), Emad Abbad M. Alabbad (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Jamie Cochran (Aberdeenshire, Great Britain) and Rae Younger (Aberdeenshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system to perform a wellhead maintenance process are disclosed. The wellhead maintenance process includes digitizing data records of wellhead valve greasing operations, automatic well and wellhead valve data recognition and verification, automatic generation of gr...