US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Feb. 11 for "Remote detection technology based apparatus and methodology for miniaturized sensor recovery" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,882, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Remote detection technology based apparatus and methodology for miniaturized sensor recovery" was invented by Yara H. Alkhaldi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdullah Alabdulkarim (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Fawaz M. Albahesh (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Faisal Alghamdi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Bodong Li (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a drilling microchip, a mud return line, a microchip detector, and a computer system. The drilling microchip has an identifier and configured to be pumped into the drill string and u...